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 | The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule . |
| 7 | Mr Millan personally was in favour of a large degree of devolution and said it helped European regional policy to work more effectively . |
| 8 | 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 . |