Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 2 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 3 | It saddled liberalism with the problem of generals in politics and the mystique of the guerrilla . |
| 4 | Greenpeace has been invited to appraise the environmental costs of such an operation , after it voiced concern that dredging and flooding would have a dangerously destructive impact on the fragile ecosystem . |
| 5 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 6 | For it mistook Darren and Michelle Fryer for a giant heating boiler . |
| 7 | It mistook excuses for reasons . |
| 8 | I said , you know , I 'd every right to resume my own research , erm , if the Labour Party thought it owned psychoanalysis , I 'm afraid I have , have to differ . |
| 9 | Iraq ( itself fully independent since 1932 , and rid of the monarchy with its London connections since 1958 ) claimed that it owned Kuwait . |
| 10 | And now it stilled Creggan , and it brought silence to the other eagle . |
| 11 | It inhabited plateaux and lowlands of the Cretaceous and preyed on duckbilled dinosaurs such as the giant sauropodomorphs . |
| 12 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 13 | Two pages later the Report proceeded to do exactly what it said it would not do : it coupled levels of attainment to ages , by defining the expected range of levels at which pupils aged 7 , 11 , 14 and 16 would perform.4 This represented ‘ a rough speculation about the limits within which about 80% of pupils may be found to lie ’ ( DES 1988a : para.104 ) . |
| 14 | And , from 1911 to 1919 , it secured its position as the women artists ' association in Germany , it got funding from the state , became fully accepted as an association , and continued its activities for furthering the professionalism of women . |
| 15 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 16 | At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years |
| 17 | The wet cobbles in the mill-yard only needed huddled operatives arriving for an 18-hour shift in their shawls , but instead it got art critics . |
| 18 | Rolling Stone was originally a reaction to the underground newspaper look and bit by bit it got art direction and , you know , good illustration , good photography , for this and all that , and then I got in there and pushed the type stuff . |
| 19 | The auction house had expected £3 million from the sale — it got £10 million . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 22 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 23 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 24 | The single did its job — it got East 17 on the cover of Smash Hits and into the teenypop consciousness . |
| 25 | It was er cut out of palm trees and it got palm trees on hundred feet high , both sides of the runway . |
| 26 | ‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley . |
| 27 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 28 | It got dark pretty soon after , but I did n't bother to move . |
| 29 | When it got dark he looked for somewhere else to sit and went to the back of the aircraft by way of the communication tunnel , but quickly got bored . |
| 30 | As it got dark there was a nightmare of organisation and shouting ; there were meals to be cooked for the Sergeants , marquee and tents to be erected in a rainstorm , personal kit to be unpacked and weapons to be put into a makeshift armoury . |