Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just four years after Charles 's death , Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims , who had been an important political figure throughout Charles 's reign ( though not consistently close to him ) , wrote a treatise , The Government of the Palace , for the young King Carloman , Charles 's grandson , and lent it an air of authority by claiming to incorporate the work of Abbot Adalard of Corbie , who had died nearly sixty years before . |
| 2 | Surely the Minister feels some embarrassment about the fact that a former Minister at his Department bought a Guyanese asset for £9.7 million and sold it a few months later for £62 million worth of shares ? |
| 3 | By 1065 he had conquered Toledo and made it a Christian — Moorish fief owing allegiance to Leon . |
| 4 | In the period of transition that historians call the Axial Age ( 800–200 BCE ) , the great confessional faiths developed which have continued to be a crucial influence in the consciousness of the people of each region : in China Lao Tsu developed Taoism , in India , Hinduism and Buddhism reformed the primitive pagan vision and made it a means of analysing the self ; in the Middle East the monotheistic faiths analysed history and the Greek rationalists of Athens analysed the cosmos to find an ultimate meaning and significance in the apparently random flux of life . |
| 5 | While nineteenth-century Catholic teaching had been suspicious of ‘ human rights ’ discourse , John embraced it eagerly and made it a central theme , greatly extending the range and number of ‘ rights ’ , including those of minorities ( 95–7 ) and refugees ( 103–8 ) . |
| 6 | It is a shame in many ways that Robert Harris ' Fatherland ( Arrow ) has such stiff competition in the same area , for judging by the hardcover success I , along with Arrow , have stuck my neck out and made it a Giant . |
| 7 | When I met Jean-Claude I found something in his face , his speech and gestures , that alerted my heart and made it a gift to him . |
| 8 | For example , the 1986 Act removed the right to benefit for most 16- and 17-year-olds and made it a requirement that claimants pay 20 per cent of their rates/poll tax and 100 per cent of their water rates . |
| 9 | I think it 's about time we actually put that word back into the dictionary and made it a good word to have . |
| 10 | This gave statutory recognition for the first time to the area concept , and made it a duty of local planning authorities ‘ to determine which parts of their areas are areas of special architectural or historic interest , the character of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance ’ and to designate such areas as conservation areas ' . |
| 11 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |
| 12 | The German army itself was in theory a composite force of Prussian , Saxon , Bavarian and Württemberger troops ; this diversity meant little more than differences of name and uniform , for the Prussian staff controlled the whole apparatus as a unified system and made it the best army in the world . |
| 13 | Behaviouralists drew a sharp distinction between normative and scientific statements , and made it the hallmark of science to avoid the normative . |
| 14 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 15 | A brief encounter with the new range last week convinced me the changes have rejuvenated the car and made it the equal of anything from Munich or Stuttgart . |
| 16 | We also , in the Broadcasting Act , brought in sanctions against the transmission of offensive satellite broadcasts from abroad , and made it an offence for advertisers and equipment suppliers to support such programmes . |
| 17 | Often , however , it is clear that the commissioners took over an existing track between two villages and straightened it a little , without going to the extreme length of drawing entirely new roads . |
| 18 | Well Julie went and got it the other day that 's why fetched her out , to get their presents . |
| 19 | Grimma took another step forward and caught it a backward thump across the muzzle . |
| 20 | Under Rachel 's serene autocracy the firemen agreed that there was nothing much to be done now , that the house seemed safe enough but they should not use the attic until someone ‘ from the department ’ had been and inspected it the next day . |
| 21 | Health physics monitor Steven Crozier , a fitness enthusiast who was one of the group who visited Peel Park to collect the 1993 award , tried out the new multi-gym and pronounced it a real asset ( below ) . |
| 22 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
| 23 | I found my way to a temperance hotel advertised in the guide-book and found it a homely house . |
| 24 | Just by chance I happened to have the opportunity of watching yesterday morning and found it a prayerful , joyful experience with so many of the parishioners of very generation actively involved . |
| 25 | The Queen kept a sharp eye on the proceedings , and found it a favourable wet-day pastime to visit the Dolls ' House . |
| 26 | Well , having actually been to Nashville and found it a singularly ugly and inhumane property developer 's hell , I never really thought the city was downhome . |
| 27 | We spent ten days on the island and found it a place of contrasts . |
| 28 | Rudyard Kipling ( who once was forced to travel on a migrant train in the United States and found it a ‘ nightmare ’ ) encountered a peculiarly American hazard for the famous traveller . |
| 29 | We made the locks at Gairlochy on Saturday evening and found it no great hardship to lay there throughout the following Sunday . |
| 30 | Clarissa loved dancing and found it the most exciting time of her life . |