Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
| 32 | You know , Nicholas , that whatever miseries the Great War brought it destroyed a great deal that was unhealthy between the sexes . |
| 33 | oh it made it made a nice change . |
| 34 | Yesterday the National Audit Office , the official public spending watchdog , admitted it missed the legal aid bill — run up as Mr Lamont evicted a sex therapist from his flat — when it went through the Treasury accounts . |
| 35 | If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it would n't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese . |
| 36 | Cosla complained it had no extra resources to meet the requirement , and suggested the registers would be unworkable , raising complicated questions of liability if land was found to be contaminated . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Rain said if Maureen did it suggested a powerful reason for her certainty that her father had died for political reasons . |
| 39 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 40 | Commenting on another storming quarter — figures , page seven — Microsoft Corp , whose third quarter earnings of $0.80 a share were above consensus analyst estimates of $0.78 for the period , warned that fourth quarter growth in profits would be less impressive — ‘ One of the things that 's different in this fourth quarter is we do n't have this kicker product , the icing on the cake , ’ said Microsoft investor relations chief Raymond Ferguson ; Microsoft said it shipped a record-breaking 2m MS-DOS 6 retail upgrade copies in the two weeks since it hit the market , but the company said they would be pleased if fourth-quarter revenues rose by half the roughly 20% sequential quarterly rate of recent years , when Microsoft has benefited from upgrade versions of Windows 3.0 , MS-DOS 5 and then Windows 3.1 ; it is still likely to see its first billion dollar quarter this time ; during the fiscal third quarter , sales of applications , which accounted for 61% of total revenues in the period , leaped 63% over year-ago levels to $580m , and Microsoft ended the quarter with $2,000m in cash ; shipment of Windows NT is on schedule for late June following a late May unveiling , the firm said . |
| 41 | I merely said it avoided the real issue . ’ |
| 42 | In a joint press conference with Darlington borough council , the YMCA said it hoped the 30-bed hostel in Melland Street , off Borough Road would be open in spring , 1994 . |
| 43 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 44 | The insolent way she said it made the other girls gasp with astonishment . |
| 45 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 46 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 47 | He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway . |
| 48 | Tory Bill Walker said it showed the German nation in its true colours . |
| 49 | Shell said it appeared the 3,625 ton Danish refrigerated cargo ship Icestar had a fouled propeller . |