Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film .
2 It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town .
3 The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so .
4 Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways .
5 ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’
6 Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit .
7 On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel .
8 At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value .
9 Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early .
10 Vern had jammed it shut last night .
11 She had to admit it looked that way .
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