Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily we killed it before it became a full-blown institution and today no one seriously expects that food , or clothing , or even that overriding necessity , a television set , should be subsidised for all consumers , still less for a minority . |
| 2 | To its critics , it became a mild tabloid and a very pale imitation of what was originally intended . |
| 3 | It became a runaway success and , until the introduction of PageMaker on the PC , had no real competition . |
| 4 | It became an annual event and a major source of Army income , with the public soon being asked to share in the exercise . |
| 5 | It made a detailed study and in particular conducted trial runs on both gauges under similar conditions . |
| 6 | It bore a French stamp and suddenly she did n't want to know what was inside that letter . |
| 7 | It promised a secret ballot and the possibility of independent candidates standing against nominees of the AWP , provided that they gained the signatures of 300 or more sponsors . |
| 8 | It promised a 25-year blueprint and pledged greater choice for parents and pupils . |
| 9 | In 1963 , in B.R. days , it received a full overhaul and it is believed that a new front tube plate was fitted . |
| 10 | It sealed a comfortable victory and sent Rovers soaring into third place in the table . |
| 11 | It spawned a trillion imitators and forced Primal Scream to become space-age voodoo rave psychedelecists . |
| 12 | It attracted a large Customs and Excise office and the Access credit card headquarters , but tourists were not encouraged . |
| 13 | Perhaps the problem with the machine , thought many of the intellectuals , was that it needed a new design and improved principles to guide it . |
| 14 | It needed a two-sided commitment and , willingly or not , Niall was already committed , to another woman . |
| 15 | At district level it included a part-time consultant and GP member elected by their district colleagues . |
| 16 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
| 17 | A new drug could become a potential blockbuster if it treated a common ailment and generated $100m-plus in annual sales ( see table ) . |
| 18 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 19 | It took a long time and many attempts before the standard route was worked out . |
| 20 | For example , a reduction in the cost of grinding and polishing plate glass was made possible by the float process , but it took a long time and a great deal of money to make it work . |
| 21 | It took a long time and I 'm not sure I ever did . |
| 22 | To wake up a Woosnam who has struggled on some dull courses and slow greens recently , it took a demanding course and fast greens , even if neither were as demanding nor fast as perhaps in previous years . |
| 23 | It was the weather which really decided the issue for , one observer wrote , ‘ It blew a great storm and rained and hailed so hard that the water came out of the soldiers ’ shoes . ’ |
| 24 | It proved a certain hit and shot to number two in the UK before topping the charts in Belgium , Australia , Hong Kong and Finland , and storming top tens all across Europe . |
| 25 | But it proved a complete success and he is keeping out £2m David Rocastle , who was bought to replace him . |
| 26 | It occupied an entire building and was similar in capacity to the programmable pocket calculator that one now buys at the stationers . |
| 27 | It gave a low moan and Nuadu felt the nausea lift his stomach again , because there had been a very nearly sexual quality in the sound . |
| 28 | Or in 1982 the Navy would fight the Falklands , the very spot where in 1914 it won a spectacular victory and uncannily on both occasions the flagship was called Invincible . |
| 29 | It supported a multi-party system and set itself the task of turning the CPSU into a parliamentary party . |
| 30 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |