Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 2 | She peered at the Christmas cactus she had bought for Alan and decided it looked distinctly sorry for itself . |
| 3 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 4 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 5 | The Bonn family financed the Bureau for a number of years and enabled it to recruit a small staff which laid the foundations for the development of the organisation into what it is to-day . |
| 6 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 7 | Then she drank a glass of water and felt it trickle slowly down inside her as if she were a pipe . |
| 8 | Mr Millan personally was in favour of a large degree of devolution and said it helped European regional policy to work more effectively . |
| 9 | It 's a piece of pipe that I got at a plumbing supply place ; I bought a twelve foot piece of pipe and had it cut into pieces a little over an inch long . |
| 10 | I personally registered my version of Frombat and used it to create the Transend Menu Program , issued with every Shareware disc , and the Transend Catalogue which only took 3 hours to write . |
| 11 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 12 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |
| 13 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 14 | Brückner had bought the painted ceiling from Italy and had it fitted . |
| 15 | Tehran radio announced on 31 December that ‘ The Iranian navy has seized a Danish ship in the Gulf of Oman which was carrying explosives destined for the ruling regime in Iraq and forced it to dock at one of the ports of the Islamic Republic of Iran . ’ |
| 16 | ( In Henry VIII 's reign , the great Dutch scholar Erasmus was given the benefice of Aldington in Kent and had it commuted for a pension of £20 , charged on the living . ) |
| 17 | Stirling went twice to Benina and found it deserted . |
| 18 | so she changed the Susan to , to Theresa and made it pits instead |