Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One moment there was glass , and the next there were bits of glass , drifting out like a jigsaw puzzle where every piece had suddenly decided it wanted some personal space . |
2 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
3 | He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does . |
4 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
5 | The Open Software Foundation has been quoted in the US press as saying it shipped 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
6 | ‘ They reckon it killed sixteen thousand people . ’ |
7 | I think it said twenty one days . |
8 | The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule . |
9 | The group , one of Europe 's leaders in the field , said it lost 650 billion lire ( £284 million ) last year , compared with 460 billion lire ( £201 million ) in 1991 , because of heavy competition and the international economic slowdown . |
10 | Mr Millan personally was in favour of a large degree of devolution and said it helped European regional policy to work more effectively . |
11 | Brabham had come quite close to the championship in I975 , and in Reutemann and Pace it had two first-line drivers of the highest quality . |