Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery . |
| 2 | The US State Department thought it time to look closely into the causes and extent of British criticism . |
| 3 | Anne was approaching her thirteenth birthday and King Edward considered it time that she and his son Prince Richard , then ten years of age , became better acquainted . |
| 4 | For a few moments he was content to look at the maid 's face and the way the orange firelight lent it strength and mystery . |
| 5 | The plainness of the whole lent it gravity , and a certain functionalism which was not inappropriate . |
| 6 | The Cretans named it Minotaur , meaning ‘ bull-son of the King Minos ’ . |
| 7 | Youve lost it Kev . |
| 8 | When Anna brought it home — some thirty years ago it must be — the prince put it in his pocket . |
| 9 | Bruce Davidson said , and McLeish gave it thought . |
| 10 | Nassim called it amnesty . |
| 11 | Within two years television gave it air time and a new spectator sport was born . |
| 12 | Before the 1964–70 Labour government made it Department of Education and Science policy , a number of local authorities had already set up comprehensive schools . |
| 13 | Simpson called it quantum evolution and described it as one of three evolutionary modes . |
| 14 | The West 's involvement in Iraq gave it responsibility for dealing actively with the situation there , despite the mealy-mouthed excuses for allowing Saddam Hussein to survive . |
| 15 | The radio on the dummy suddenly screeched into action as Delaney 's distorted voice gave it life . |
| 16 | Potrovsky stamped on the brake pedal violently and the Mercedes was still slewing across the icy road when the missile struck it broadside . |
| 17 | Lord Acton gave it expression for the first time in 1887 , in a letter which Tolkien might have been interested enough to read — it is in a strongly anti-Papal context . |
| 18 | The moonlight lent it enchantment , of course , but what a pokey place it looked , lying by the lakeside in the clear night . |
| 19 | Akers called it –the largest retraining and redeployment program in IBM 's history . ’ |
| 20 | Jimmy , a world of conjecture in his face , opened his mouth , and Leith thought it time to put a stop to his speculations before he went any further . |
| 21 | Other visitors might have seen the business-card as merely a piece of litter — it could have stayed there , its drawing-pins slowly rusting , for years ; but Flaubert gave it function . |
| 22 | I needed to , for Jean-Claude remembered it word for word . |
| 23 | Eagle Star launched it strategy for the older market last April , with a range of special policies sold by a mature salesforce . |
| 24 | Betty Heycock 's autobiography Put It Down To Experience is a classic tale of one of Britain 's pioneering women aviators . |
| 25 | Even in the so-called ‘ permissive ’ 1960s , there were no gay switchboards or lesbian lines , and Chad Varah made it part of his mission to encourage self-acceptance in lesbians , most of whom at that time felt ‘ guilty or freakish ’ . |
| 26 | Gareth Jenkins possessed one of the outstanding talents of his Seventies ' generation but injury prevented it demonstration at the very highest level and it is as a Scarlet , the epitome of Llanelli as player and coach , that he has always been seen and highly regarded . |