Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olson adopted a public choice methodology but used it to produce striking anti-pluralist criticisms in the tradition of elite theory . |
| 2 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
| 3 | He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does . |
| 4 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 5 | Reporting profits of £1.3m , up from just £300,000 last time , Acorn Computer Group Plc says that although there was pricing and therefore margin pressure across the industry , its differentiated technology and focus on value for the customer enabled it to maintain strong gross margins . |
| 6 | You told me to throw it away before but I kept it to put that other mug in it . |
| 7 | Did it drop any other bombs or ? |
| 8 | Nor did it have any lasting effect on morale . |
| 9 | This short book might have been more accessible to the lay reader and perhaps generally clearer had it included some extra detail or more specific examples . |
| 10 | I got undressed and , after my usual battle with the crumbling Ascot in the bathroom , forced it to yield enough hot water for a miserly bath . |
| 11 | She really only said it to annoy these old friends of her mother 's . |
| 12 | Mr Millan personally was in favour of a large degree of devolution and said it helped European regional policy to work more effectively . |
| 13 | He successfully ran it as what he wished it to remain , the last of the medieval halls ; he never wanted it to have full collegiate status . |