Example sentences of "it have [verb] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles took up watercolour painting nearly twenty years ago , and it has become one of his greatest pleasures . |
| 2 | As a result , it has become one of the great monuments of the world and a national symbol , like the Eiffel Tower , the Statue of Liberty and the Great Wall of China . |
| 3 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |
| 4 | It has become one of the basic and seminal texts in the sociological study of this topic . |
| 5 | But it has become one of the big post-war economic success stories , with one of the world 's most open trading systems and a business environment not far behind Switzerland , Japan and west Germany . |
| 6 | In recent years , however , the world sugar prices have slumped and it has become one of the poorest areas in the Philippines . |
| 7 | It has left one of my downstairs windows stranded next door with a Cyclopean view of the neighbours , occasional week-enders , sun-bathing on their colourful suites of beach furniture . |
| 8 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 9 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 10 | The Collector sat on an oak throne which had been chipped out of the mud rampart for fuel , but had not yet been used , though it had lost one of its front legs . |
| 11 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 12 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 13 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 14 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 15 | It had entered one of the tents , but a moment later emerged and raced at Tallis , light reflecting in dull eyes . |
| 16 | It had rejoiced , as alien coteries naturally do , in its own intellectual isolation ; and in disdaining narrative , or at least fast-paced narrative , it had disavowed one of the native strengths of the tradition . |
| 17 | It 's become one of the most famous brands in the world . |
| 18 | So what kind of people live here that we what 's what 's made it go you you said that it 's got one of the s what are the kind of things that go on now , that wo did n't go on before ? |
| 19 | it 's got er , it 's got one of them white things with a black line on it I 'm sure |
| 20 | It 's got one of those kind of belts with that |
| 21 | Yes , cos he 's got one of those erm , oh dear what 's it called , it 's got a big thing tube and stuff and it 's got one of those erm bits round the outside it goes on what do you call those er , and you , you squeeze it do n't you |
| 22 | er , I suppose it 's got one of those R buttons on |
| 23 | It 's got one of those letters Father gave you , Father Michael gave you |
| 24 | Er cat lost , lost since July the twenty sixth oh I remember it well er lost in Hendon Rise er it 's been seen again in Cromer Road and it 's er it 's a black fluffy cat and it 's male with a bushy tail and a yellow collar and it 's got one of these I D chip things under it 's skin . |
| 25 | Oh my god one to ten it 's got one in there already , so what have I got in there ? |
| 26 | It 's thought one of the youths is called Mike or Dave , he 's white about five foot ten with light curly hair , and was wearing dark jeans , a dark top and a baseball cap . |