Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 2 | and it had to appeal to a broader group . |
| 3 | The National Bank said that for 1990 it had to adhere to a strict monetary policy aimed at keeping the hard currency account deficit under $550,000,000 , that of the state budget under 10,000 million forints and inflation under 19 per cent — conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) when it approved an agreement to pave the way for additional foreign loans to maintain the country 's creditworthiness . |
| 4 | But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour . |
| 5 | The upholstery of the seats had once been crimson : it had faded to a faint red glow , balding , springs occasionally exposed . |
| 6 | The regime was n't defeated although it had come to a dead end and the liberation movement did not conquer the situation although they made government impossible . |
| 7 | It is perhaps as well to remember at the outset that the main injury in this particular case was a hip injury which , if it had occurred to a younger man , would have produced an arthrodesis operation . |