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

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1 To accept it required a whole sociology of crime .
2 When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding .
3 Although the affair was soon forgotten it took a long time for Phil to live down that one !
4 My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked .
5 Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation .
6 MIPS says it made a strong effort at the beginning to get the SCO on very favourable terms but the sponsorship just was n't there .
7 Now 43 , she is married with a two-year-old daughter and says it took a long time to settle down to a ‘ normal life ’ .
8 D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills .
9 Siemens AG says it won a Bulgarian contract worth more than $6.3m to modernise and expand the country 's telephone systems : Siemens will deliver more than 80,000 EWSD digital exchange lines and fibre cable : its Digicom Bulgarian joint venture set up last year with a local partner , will install the kit in Sophia and in northern Bulgaria by 1996 .
10 Dun says it weighed a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't need SQL programming skills .
11 So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything .
12 On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles .
13 But to avoid it meant a long detour to get into Barn Street , and she was shivering with wet and cold .
14 Some of the sacked workers were delighted at news of the departure , saying it removed a major obstacle to settling the bitter five-month row .
15 When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme .
16 When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme .
17 Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive .
18 I believe it had a thatched roof and it was such a bonny place , but it has sadly been derelict for years .
19 I believe it provided a turning point .
20 I guess it made a stimulating change for him not to be surrounded by fawners and flatterers the whole time .
21 A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square .
22 ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’
23 Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again .
24 Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan .
25 I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island .
26 From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong .
27 I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour .
28 Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it
29 I thought it seemed a funny thing to do .
30 But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly .
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