Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold 850 units in its first year . |
| 2 | It made short work of our Windows performance tests , WinTach , clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3 . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 4 | When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed Protocols 2 and 3 to the Nuclear Free Zone Treaty , it made interpretive statements of its commitments . |
| 5 | It offended the friends and allies of the USA , especially in western Europe ; and in the Cold War years it provided splendid propaganda for her enemies in the Communist World . |
| 6 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 7 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 8 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
| 9 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
| 10 | TI 's announcement , says Mr Garner , was in direct response to its experience of three years ago , when it attracted heavy criticism over its acquisition and goodwill accounting techniques — in spite of the huge amount spent on acquisitions , the substantial rationalisation costs involved were rarely charged to the p&l account . |
| 11 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
| 12 | Under its previous director , Mark Francis , who holds the current position of curator of contemporary art at Pittsburgh 's Carnegie Museum , it enjoyed international recognition for its adventurous exhibitions policy . |
| 13 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 14 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 15 | There was a concerted gasp of shock around the table , and Benedict himself stiffened , his frown deepening so that it cut heavy lines across his forehead and between his brows , marring his looks . |
| 16 | It landed six inches from my face and before it had stopped quivering in the ground , a red one slapped down next to it . |
| 17 | I said , ‘ Cynthia would n't let him ’ , which was silly of me because it aroused several emotions in my mother . |
| 18 | Tracey added , ‘ The order was a good test for our facility as it employed several items of our equipment . |
| 19 | As she hesitated , she glanced at the loose page to see if it offered any clue to its rightful position in the book . |
| 20 | Usually , that duty was clear cut : it meant absolute obedience to her husband , and a rigid negation of her own wishes ; but there were occasions when a conflict of loyalty arose between husband and conscience , and the decision to visit her twin sister had been one of them . |
| 21 | It represented tangible proof of her achievements after years of struggle in a male-dominated profession . |
| 22 | The sea-blue eyes gazing back at her were coolly assessing , and it took considerable effort on her part not to look away . |
| 23 | She dedicated her song to all the boys who had really regretted doing it , all the men who have ever said , naming no names , it took ten years of my life , and now I can truly say that I never want to even talk to him again , never to see him . |
| 24 | It took full advantage of its opponents ' weaknesses . |
| 25 | It took some time for their masters to curb them . |
| 26 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 27 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 28 | It did funny things to her insides — she thought it was about time to study the menu . |
| 29 | Ianthe gave the word a horrified emphasis , for it sounded unsuitable coming from his pale lips . |
| 30 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |