Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The IMF 's satisfaction with Jordan 's continued implementation of economic restructuring programmes led it to approve on July 14 , 1989 , a financial package of 76,600,000 special drawing rights ( approximately US$96,000,000 ) . |
| 2 | Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants . |
| 3 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 4 | Corsie drew shot , but King beat it to tie things up at 6-6 , before Corsie prevailed on the next end to take the set 7-6 and force the decider . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the church was despoiled of its marble wall covering in the fifteenth century when Alberti used it to enrich the Cathedral of Rimini . |
| 6 | Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute . |
| 7 | Rex turned it to face him and read the title . |
| 8 | However , the United States persuaded it to accept UN Security Council Resolution 242 , giving an assurance that it would ensure that the critical wording ‘ withdrawal from territories captured ’ would mean no more than minor border rectifications . |
| 9 | Gazza recently put up £1,500 of his own money to get Spurs ' hospital radio service back on air when shortage of funds forced it to close down . |
| 10 | But for now Kylie harnessed it to press on with the next stage of her ten year plan which had been drawn up by her musical gurus . |
| 11 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 12 | Typical of the electric effects are the advertising blimp — Scott wanted it to look like his memories from earliest childhood of wartime barrage balloons — and the many neon signs , particularly the giant billboard screen showing an oriental girl . |
| 13 | Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town . |
| 14 | Ruth used it to stress her point . |
| 15 | It certainly is n't a new invention : Turner used it to produce some of his finest watercolour paintings in the 1880s . |
| 16 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 17 | Even the Beatles used it to symbolize their vision of a more just world when they named their business Apple Corp . |
| 18 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 19 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 20 | Hobson 's work is mainly remembered because Lenin used it to construct his own , quite distinct , theory of imperialism . |
| 21 | For the purpose of his decision in Re Sigsworth , the trial judge assumed it to have been proved that the deceased , Mary Ann Sigsworth , had been murdered by her son ; and the question was whether the son was entitled to her estate as ‘ issue ’ under the Act . |
| 22 | Ruth willed it to metamorphose itself to arsenic . |
| 23 | However , when the bill reached the upper house Lord Paignton amended it to let B R bid , for two reasons . |
| 24 | But his collection lay undiscovered for decades , until a careful piece of botanical detective work brought it to light . |
| 25 | The judge left it to counsel to submit suggestions for appropriate relief for the limited infringement of copyright . |
| 26 | The 1988 Criminal Justice Act extended it to cover all crimes where a few thousand pounds are involved . |
| 27 | Chopra wanted it to stop . |
| 28 | Yet the Commission could only do what member states allowed it to do , and it lost real power to other institutions which protected national interests . |
| 29 | Furthermore , while in former times the responsible authorities strove their hardest to mitigate poverty , of circumstance and opportunity , by driving hard for high levels of education provision , low expectation still depressed educational achievement , and work-related training in industry continued to be low-grade — where employers allowed it to happen at all . |
| 30 | The capacity of a body corporate with which the International Tin Council had been bestowed by the English Parliament allowed it to acquire and hold property , and to perform other actions in its own name . |