Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | My second book , although it has used the same idea of telekinetic powers , has a completely different story line . |
2 | Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened . |
3 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
4 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
5 | And I 've come back years later and it 's had the same effect on me . ’ |
6 | The Leader of the Opposition simply pointed out in an article that he wrote just before the party conference that the proportion of gross domestic product — national income — devoted to education since 1979 had dropped , and that if it had remained the same , the difference would be the figure to which the hon. Gentleman has referred . |