Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I came here briefly last year and found it the most comfortable of cities to walk about in , so I 'm here for two months to learn Spanish . ’ |
| 32 | Over 100 members attended last year and found it an enjoyable and informative day . |
| 33 | ‘ Bad cooks — and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen — have delayed human development longest and impaired it the most ’ . |
| 34 | For this month 's design , I have taken the subject of Mediterranean ceramics , touched on in last month 's article and explored it a little further into the area of tiles . |
| 35 | However , some remnants of the latter ( the Citizen Army and Sinn Fein Volunteers ) seized Dublin in 1916 and proclaimed it an Irish republic . |
| 36 | While Sergeant Bird was in the lecture hall , Montgomery walked over to one of the other statuettes and lifted it a few inches . |
| 37 | He let the minion struggle and kick for a little while , then hoisted it back out , shook it , and turned it the right way up again . |
| 38 | When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 . |
| 39 | In 1910 , the Hon Charles Rothschild purchased 138 hectares of this fenland fragment and declared it a nature reserve . |
| 40 | Vietnam was left to decide its own fate , and in 1975 , North Vietnam took over the South and declared it a Communist state , causing thousands to flee from the South as boat people refugees . |
| 41 | Fortunately the judges agreed , and awarded it the first prize . |
| 42 | The Americans went nuts over it and awarded it the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film . |
| 43 | Sure enough he won the lead , drifted up the HVS crux and vouched it a classic . |
| 44 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 45 | They calculated the distance around the earth , then took a fraction of this measurement as their unit of length and called it a metre . |
| 46 | They attacked the regressive structure as ‘ disconcerting and tiring ’ ( TLS 1960:673 ) , and called it a misuse of the author 's talents ( Hartley 1961:74 ) . |
| 47 | In the end he slippered Pickerage and called it a day . |
| 48 | For himself he built a hotel on the corner of the ancient Coal Road West Auckland Road and called it the Alma . |
| 49 | Somebody who lives nearby , came in and examined it the other day , and that 's all I know . |
| 50 | Politically , Britain was not prepared to allow WEU to intrude upon Anglo-American relationships , and placed it a poor second to NATO . |
| 51 | And loved it every bit as much as they adored their riverside home . |
| 52 | As it has often done in the modern period , the experience of war had given those who had taken part in it and survived it a new and more confident awareness of their own worth and standing . |
| 53 | I went out and saw it a minute ago and I thought I 'd bring it in and I thought I had n't seen you for a couple of days . |
| 54 | We made the necessary arrangements with the owner and viewed it the next day . |
| 55 | He looked up towards the Jungfrau , its golden breasts framed against cerulean blue , and blew it a kiss . |
| 56 | In fact , many felt its power had become too great and thought it no bad thing when it was forced to close , I believe in 1932 or 1933 . |
| 57 | It was during my visit that I made my acquaintance with Woolworths and thought it a marvellous store with goods that were priced at either 3d or 6d ; the firm did not arrive in Salisbury until 1927 . |
| 58 | Lauritz Weibull suggested that Adam drew inspiration from the biblical story of the capture of Manasseh , pagan king of Judah , by the Assyrians , and thought it a distortion of Swegen 's expeditions to the British Isles . |
| 59 | The 500-year-old building was moved to its present position by Canadian Army engineers , who floated it on cement and rolled it a quarter of a mile because it obstructed a planned runway ! |
| 60 | ‘ Surely we must take that arrow out , ’ Perkin said , and put his hand on the shaft and gave it a tug . |