Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] it the " in BNC.

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1 In this hope I name it the Mar Pacifico . ’
2 The city 's best season was the autumn , when the leaves were turning and it was filled with a soft golden light which carried it the name of Aurea Parma .
3 The Rules of the Supreme Court make no specific provision for a contemnor being served with a copy of the committal order , but as I have mentioned an instruction has been issued by the Clerk of the Rules with the approval of the President of the Family Division which makes it the duty of the applicant 's solicitor to serve the committal order , but does not require personal service .
4 The quartet carries an instrumental arsenal which gives it the necessary weight to produce the ominous , bass-heavy sounds that accompany Max Schreck 's marvellously decrepit , zombie-like portrayal of Count Dracula .
5 There is published evidence that P cepacia is transmissible , directly or indirectly , between individuals , and that in a proportion who acquire it the infection is associated with rapid deterioration or death , even when they were previously in good health and clinically stable .
6 Jonathan always thinks that what he says is so fantastic that he 's got to say it twice in case you missed it the first time round .
7 The players with the required letters then form a line to make up the word as fast as they can , and the team which does it the quickest gets a point .
8 The Sword of Justice is encrusted with ancient Dwarf Runes which give it the power of unswerving accuracy and deadly retribution .
9 He heard the calm voice , but could feel the trembling body which gave it the lie .
10 From the moment he entered it the wood seemed full of noises .
11 The reasons for the widespread development of the particular form of alphabetic literacy evident in Greece must clearly be sought in the social structure ; Goody and Watt , however , insist that ‘ considerable importance must surely be attributed to the intrinsic advantages of the Greek adaptation of the Semitic alphabet , an adaptation which made it the first comprehensively and exclusively phonetic system tor transcribing human speech ’ ( ibid. pp. 40–1 ) .
12 Yes , all that rhythm , one day you have it the next you do n't , and er Lawrence has certainly got it today , you can tell by just looking at a bowler running in , if he 's easy and relaxed , Lawrence I suppose never really looks relaxed when he 's belting into bowl , but he 's clicked he 's , he 's right at the crease .
13 Oh yeah , I love the , the mixed of border you call it the mixed of border no , yes ?
14 Because the duodenal ulcer is generated in mice as an abscopal effect of irradiation we call it the ‘ abscopal ulcer . ’
15 They agree that theological discourse does not make sense in the terms of ordinary language , but whereas for one this effectively consigns theology to the dustbin , for the other it gives it the same sort of status as speaking in tongues .
16 Boston ( 1086–1113 ) too is a planted town , its plan related to the curving banks of the River Witham along which came the trade which made it the second most prosperous town after London by 1206 .
17 The Royal Africa Company had to provide slaves for English colonists as a condition of keeping the charter which gave it the monopoly of the trade , and the colonists added to the injury of leaving their debts unpaid the insult of complaining that too few slaves were being delivered .
18 Clatting the neeps and in Aberdeen they called them yowing And y We had your clatt as the yow they called it the hoe , the yow They cleared the Did that to the drill .
19 In Japan they call it the Paul Smith Classic . ’
20 They remind themselves that it is all linked , one body of water , one mass of 329 million cubic miles of brine , and with unaffected simplicity they call it the World Ocean .
21 The Second Quartet , composed in 1951 , is a far more concise work in a much freer tonal idiom , mostly avoiding the elaborate texture which marks the earlier quartet : perhaps for that reason I find it the more memorable of the two .
22 That was the reason they named it the Deathbed Room .
23 key number they call it the number er
24 About 85pc of the company 's product is sold overseas , a feat which won it the Queen 's Award for Export two years ago .
25 Perched high above the famous White Cliffs , this vast fortress commands the shortest Channel crossing to the Continent — a strategic position which earned it the title ‘ The Key of England ’ .
26 I I th I thought I thought it was I S actually from the way you said it the first time , but that was just a guess .
27 finished that medicine I finished it the my chest , I still feel sick .
28 All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power .
29 He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby .
30 By the time he made it the sleet had soaked through every layer of his clothing .
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