Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It let go of Delaney , screaming and clawing at its hooded eyes , as the spray added layer upon layer of foam . |
| 2 | It sidestepped nervously , reared , and the slave leading it let go of the rein . |
| 3 | Such information was not highly ‘ theoretical ’ but it helped build up an objective picture of the people who went to the theatres I studied and gave me a useful corrective to people who made sweeping generalizations such as ‘ the theatre is for everyone . ’ |
| 4 | Where it did occur , it helped improve project design and correct local misconceptions of investments and their impact , " the report says . |
| 5 | If liberalism was a spent political force in Britain by 1930 , the kind of social survey to which it helped give rise was not . |
| 6 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 7 | She says ‘ It helped make my mother and I more independent so , I suppose it was a good thing . ’ |
| 8 | It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse . |
| 9 | It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 10 | At the time , I felt it was no bad thing , for it helped intensify that curious brooding quality which is such an important element in so many tropical landscapes , and especially those of Polynesia . |
| 11 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 12 | During the war years , it helped keep our spirits up and we need it again now . |
| 13 | Although the F B I thought this another delaying tactic , it helped persuade them that mass suicide was unlikely , and that it was therefore safe to force a conclusion . |
| 14 | Passing over more innovative authors such as Lawrence Durrell or William Golding , it helped establish a sort of myth of the 1950s , to the effect that the complexities and indulgences of modernism had been sensibly rejected in favour of a thoroughgoing return to traditional , realist style , and to the true subject of the novel , class and social relations . |
| 15 | ‘ Then maybe you were supposed to cry over milk , because it helped preserve it , or made it easier to turn into cheese . |
| 16 | As was pointed out earlier , it responded to popular taste , observing new taboos about racism and sexism , just as it helped demolish old ones of sexual modesty and obscene language . |
| 17 | Incidentally , much of its work was done in support of the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , erm , in which it helped develop er , computer applications , and also it had the courage to organise a major AIDS conference . |
| 18 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 19 | Erm , I 've always been interested in housing and it did appear to me that however delightful Harlow may be , when the architects were designing properties , they designed a property without any consideration for the people who were to live in them . |
| 20 | Though there have always been differences between countries outside the First World , for a long time it did appear to make sense to speak of The Third World , the title of Worsley 's very influential book ( 1973 ) on the subject . |
| 21 | But it did result in a 20% saving on commercial pig feed and also served to recover much of the lost nutrients in the ditches and to reduce eutrophication problems downstream . |
| 22 | It did result in er an improvement in the share situation and in the er strength of the pound , but I understand the share prices have dropped rapidly again following further news of oil price increases . |
| 23 | It did award her the prestigious Hughes medal in 1906 , the first medal awarded to a woman by the Royal Society . |
| 24 | If it did start up , the Ariadne would ride more comfortably if it were bows on to it . |
| 25 | And , and I 'm against any Trust status which they tend to , to go because I believe that the beginning of our campaign that because was talking last year about Trust status it did alienate a lot of people against and said , why should we bother fighting for a hospital what would go Trust anyway . |
| 26 | Although the poster exhibition failed to capture the imagination of the local press , it did attract a large number of visitors and over 200 copies of the historical booklet that accompanied the exhibition were sold . |
| 27 | And when it did arrive , I knew that Kano was still one thousand , seven hundred miles away over mountains and dunes , almost as far from me as Manchester , my home , where , as I turned ruefully north , I wished I had stayed . |
| 28 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 29 | It did mention in the , the sort of packet that maybe feel cold with cold hands and what have you . |
| 30 | ‘ It did shake me up , but I 'm over it now . ’ |