Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] it [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening , she opened it to greet the sandy-haired man who rose to his feet from behind the desk . |
| 2 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 3 | They felt it emphasised the Polish presence in the city . |
| 4 | Merlyn had shown it once , saying they kept it to protect the valuable things they bought . |
| 5 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 6 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 7 | He used it to describe the new age of Western history which , according to Toynbee , began in the 1870s with the simultaneous globalization of Western culture and the re-empowerment of non-Western states . |
| 8 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 9 | The tragedy of Oedipus Rex was given archetypal significance by Freud when he claimed it encapsulated the universal unconscious wish of young boys to dispense with their fathers in order to establish an exclusive claim upon their mothers . |
| 10 | He swivelled it to check the outside wall . |
| 11 | Disorganised French industry was slow to get into gear , and when it did it committed the traditional error — not emulated by the Germans — of having too many models . |
| 12 | He wanted it to replace the official versions in the liturgy . |