Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It effectively conjured up the mixture of religion , fighting prowess and romanticism which the Legion held so dear . |
| 2 | WHSmith did n't create Our Price ; it just took over the business . |
| 3 | It just fell out the sky , only little bits . |
| 4 | I was n't sure if there or well there may be so whatever reasons it just went out the window . |
| 5 | It was a smell so keen that it momentarily brought back the holiday she and Martin had spent in Amalfi , the trudge hand-in-hand up the winding road to the mountain-top , the pile of lemons and oranges by the roadside , putting their noses to those golden , pitted skins , the laughter and the happiness . |
| 6 | It was a victory for Mrs Thatcher — though a debatable one since it largely snuffed out the power of British local government at a time when many other European countries were trying to decentralize and devolve . |
| 7 | Although a picture of NCC confusion emerged from this study it still held out the hope , if only by implication , that more rigorous thinking would achieve better results . |
| 8 | It also brought up the art quote of the year , from one Ziff Fistrunk ( no , I do not make up the name ) , director of the Southside Chicago Sports Council , who organised the protest : ‘ I have trained players in Little League and semi-pro baseball , and at no time did I train them naked . ’ |
| 9 | It also thought up the idea of converting public debt into more or less permanent debt at fixed interest , the system known as funding . |
| 10 | It also set up the Manpower Services Commission ( MSC ) under the Department of Employment . |
| 11 | It also opened up the economy to foreign imports in order to increase competition and break up entrenched monopolies [ see pp. 37528 ; 38002 ] . |
| 12 | Asquith 's appointment of Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice just a few months after he had narrowly escaped ( and actually deserved ) parliamentary censure , was a brave example of loyalty to a colleague , but it also demonstrated exactly the insensitivity that Unionists had denounced . |
| 13 | While it may be debatable whether Suez marked the end of Britain 's imperial era , it undoubtedly blew away the mirage of coequality in the Anglo-American partnership . |
| 14 | All this went down well enough with the members of the Institute , although it conveniently ignored both the fact that large numbers of those he excoriated had been encouraged into the professions by business parents and that for an entire decade ‘ the Establishment ’ had been elbowed aside by the Thatcher appointments policy . |
| 15 | It certainly generated neither the furore nor the hype that surrounded the original big budget epic ‘ The Guinness Trial ’ , which boasted an all-star cast , an intricate cloak and dagger plot , and ran for more than three years . |