Example sentences of "it made things " in BNC.
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| 1 | It made things worse for Charles that he was responsible for his men 's transfer with him to this wilderness . |
| 2 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 3 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 4 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 5 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 6 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 7 | But it made things difficult for me , at times . |
| 8 | Those eyes looked so blue when he was angry like this , and in a way , after last night , it made things easier that he had come now , when there was Faye 's latest problem to think of . |
| 9 | erm I think it made things a lot cheaper , because you had larger firms able , able to buy in bulk , and also the beginnings of the ready-made market . |