Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 2 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 3 | For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available . |
| 4 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 5 | Physically and erm emotionally writing can be very isolating and so , for example a few years ago , I was writing a huge piece on Africa about Africa and I found emotions growing that I actually did n't have names for , erm and it made it impossible to finish the piece I was working on , and then I , I went to see an Afro Asian exhibition of art and I saw portraying some of these paintings the same emotions and it , it did n't give me a name for the emotions but it , it made me feel an awful lot less isolated seeing that erm other people have also , have also felt this . |
| 6 | It made me take a good look at what I really wanted out of men and dating . |
| 7 | And yet , says Renate Olins surprising positives may emerge : one initially devastated client in counselling began to reflect that her husband had started to play around because it made him feel a bigger man . |
| 8 | It made him look a little as though he were on safari . |
| 9 | oh it made it made a nice change . |
| 10 | ‘ It stopped me having a normal childhood . |
| 11 | It helped them get the over-all view of what was happening here , ’ he said . |
| 12 | But it helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of what is involved . |
| 13 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 14 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
| 15 | It seemed they had a mutual acquaintance in ‘ freelance , W. Dennis Suit , president of Overseas Press Services , whom Coleman had met as a ‘ consultant ’ to Pat Robertson 's Christian Broadcasting Network and with whom he had kept in touch , on DIA instructions , because of Suit 's involvement with Oliver North 's ragtag army of conmen , yahoos and armchair mercenaries from |
| 16 | I was so close to these birds , they were like friends , and it seemed I had a personal responsibility towards them . |
| 17 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 18 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 19 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 20 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 21 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 22 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 23 | and it meant we had a regular rehearsal space — which we used nearly every day . |
| 24 | We moved in with them , although it meant I had a long journey to the hospital every day and I had to sleep there when I was on call , and we stayed with them until he was nine . |
| 25 | I read women authors voraciously , and when you consider this was in pre-Women 's Press and Virago days , it meant I read a strange variety of subjects : history , travel , witchcraft , politics , poetry , theology , philosophy , even Victorian novelettes on the evils of alcohol inspired by the Temperance League . |
| 26 | As soon as the handshake was complete , Charlotte turned away , eager to look elsewhere for the instant it took her to absorb the simple fact of his marriage . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We thought it was interference but when it continued we mapped the entire area . ’ |