Example sentences of "[noun] it [verb] things " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 2 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 3 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 4 | Of course it says things that are uncomfortable for the Government and for local authorities . |
| 5 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 6 | Perhaps I can say , that what I 'd like to see is N C V O be much more corporate in the way it approaches things , erm , many of you will have seen many of our publications , but , you may not always realise they come from N C V O , sometimes it 's not always easy to see that , you have to search through and , not always find it , and we 've got many different images , so I think it 's important we er get a whole corporate image across . |
| 7 | At the time it seemed things could get no worse but , inexorably , they did . |