Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initiative helped it to take on new staff , all previously unemployed , and train them in skills ranging from computing to business administration . |
| 2 | As the granite cooled it squeezed out hot fluids containing mineral ores in solution . |
| 3 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 4 | This place must have stood here like this for all those years , and I imagined it retaining always this season , a pocket of perpetual spring — almost a source of spring from which the frozen bare earth in other places could be revivified , as those old maps depict in each corner a Wind holding in his bursting cheeks the force of the wind everywhere . |
| 5 | Whether your hair is naturally curly or permed it needs extra special care to keep it in tip-top condition . |
| 6 | Father trapped one with the old Malayan gourd trick , and discovered it to have only four toes on each foot and four fingers on each hand . |
| 7 | This enabled it to gulp down large chunks of meat that would have been too large to swallow . |
| 8 | Ace thought of it as some sort of insect , although she knew it had too many legs . |
| 9 | I thought it come out that window . |
| 10 | When first formed it had only 12 members ; it now has 30,000 . |
| 11 | However , I could see his logic , which was that not only did it burn about three times as much wood as an enclosed stove but the draught from the chimney sucked up a considerable amount of the underfloor heating , and even though it cost us nothing , it was poor economics . |
| 12 | So why did it attract so much comment ? |
| 13 | The Pentagon was interested in the role of certain Commonwealth countries as well as Britain herself , nor did it rule out separate arrangements with the more important of them if necessary . |
| 14 | How did it get really big mummy ? |
| 15 | Why did it sell so many copies by word of mouth ? |
| 16 | With only one opponent behind me , showing A-2-4-5 and declining to change , I knew I had it sewn up both ways . |
| 17 | Still on , but he 's had it taken , he had it taken away last week . |
| 18 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 19 | The company said it shipped over 90,000 Sparc processors during the quarter , 57,000 of which were systems , the balance being upgrades and multiprocessors . |
| 20 | I said it looks really nice Ange I said . |
| 21 | While it was widely felt that CPA formalised good practice , some respondents said it included too many patients , impinged on clinical judgement , and required more resources to implement properly . |