Example sentences of "it [verb] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 2 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 3 | ‘ But does n't it make things more enjoyable if you can befriend the people you 're working with ? ’ |
| 4 | It made things worse for Charles that he was responsible for his men 's transfer with him to this wilderness . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 10 | But it made things difficult for me , at times . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It changed things dramatically . |
| 14 | We do n't want it polluting things , do we ? |
| 15 | It says things like impartial advice , does n't it for mortgages , erm in the Nottingham and the Derby paper , and then you read at the bottom it says erm an appointed representative of Legal and General . |
| 16 | Of course it says things that are uncomfortable for the Government and for local authorities . |
| 17 | But it 's bring , it says things about care and assessing that quality care 's being met on their ward and the hospital itself and about once every six months to meet up with |
| 18 | At the time it seemed things could get no worse but , inexorably , they did . |
| 19 | Just when it seemed things were going his way again this has happened . ’ |
| 20 | It simplified things … but the thought never even entered my head , that I could use this as a way of altering the course . |
| 21 | This reply raises large issues ; but chapter 5 contains a lengthy argument that if there is any non-inferential knowledge , some of it concerns things other than our sensory states — so why not sheep , for instance ? |
| 22 | The Foundation has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of Distributed File System bugs . |
| 23 | It has also refined the Distributed File System to enable it to handle things such as groups of files instead of single lines of files , as well as getting rid of a number of DFS bugs . |
| 24 | ‘ So she 's been doing it to hurry things on , has she ? |
| 25 | Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across . |
| 26 | It slowed things up to keep slipping it in and out of my jeans pocket so after a while I tucked it up the sleeve of my jersey . |
| 27 | For a moment I felt an instinctive resentment , but remembering that it contained things ‘ for me ’ , I picked it up . |
| 28 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 29 | It is for the circumstance to leave room but for one eventuality , for it to settle things . |
| 30 | I imagine it might be said that it was too insistent on formal academic instruction , that it took things like examinations very seriously and prided itself on its academic record ; yet in fact the education it gave was surprisingly wide and varied … |