Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 2 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 3 | Even when an expensive filtration plant was finally installed it proved inadequate . |
| 4 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 5 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 6 | Mr Worseley , the engineer , shot a thousand sparrows and made a curry out of them which all who tasted it proclaimed excellent , but which aroused the Collector 's fury because of the waste of powder and shot . |
| 7 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 8 | Whenever the film crew opened a cupboard in a shop to store some electrical equipment , they found it stocked high with food . |
| 9 | The public analyst found it contained 14 beetles , 24 larvae and nine pupal cases , also that it had the characteristics of the Australian beetle , which attacks and infests dried food products . |
| 10 | … she tried to open her eye — the right one , the one that was still there — and found it glued shut . |
| 11 | We had to contend with some extremely high winds and found it needed extra guys to hold upright . |
| 12 | Most reviews have identified administrative deficiencies — one scrutiny found it cost 90 to administer 100 of woodland grant — and some have led to major changes ( such as the establishment of a non-Defence central purchasing unit : see Government Purchasing : A Review of Government Contract and Procurement Procedures , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten that was what I 'd picked a Gnat for in the first place It sounded horrible , coming from him . |
| 14 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 15 | They want it kept low profile . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Our relationship is n't your secret , it 's our secret , and I want it kept secret , ’ Adam murmured , his voice smooth but determined . |
| 17 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 18 | But Lewis is shattered it proved impossible to agree terms with new champion Riddick Bowe , who on January 2 will be stripped of the WBC version . |
| 19 | Maud said that Leonora Stern believed it represented Victorian women 's fear , or any woman 's fear , of giving birth to a monstrosity . |
| 20 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 21 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 22 | In passing it gave much diverting information . |
| 23 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 24 | It says it rejected earlier offers of Fondiaria 's shares as too expensive . |
| 25 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 26 | And he says it took all his strength to make the journey from church to job centre . |
| 27 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 28 | Intel says it saw strong demand in the US and Japan , where orders rose significantly as the market was stimulated by lower personal computer prices . |
| 29 | Coming off the combine at 15% moisture , he says it looked good . |
| 30 | The AA says it surveyed two hundred and sixteen car parks … and the Westgate Centre scored joint lowest in every category . |