Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
2 | If you wished to borrow such things you instinctively made it clear that you intended no blasphemy . |
3 | Boon duly got it next day and took his average to a Bradmanesque 86 . |
4 | He came forward speaking softly but this only made it worse , for she came at him again , this time so viciously that , thinking she might hurt herself , he backed away across the path towards the benches . |
5 | Sandy lay still for a while , hoping to feel better ; but being flat on her back did n't help , and closing her eyes only made it worse . |
6 | Victor and I spent a month in the sun trying to drink it out of our systems , but the hangovers only made it worse . |
7 | They nicked whole street , and I only read it last night . |
8 | No cos I only got it this summer cos my other one was nicked , my other one which had all my really nice visas in it , which I was really |
9 | I merely made it possible for you to come back to me the sooner . ’ |
10 | But , I , I misunderstood , I obviously got it wrong then . |
11 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
12 | Melanie suddenly found it difficult to breathe . |
13 | The truth is that Mark had always known him as Steven and naturally found it ridiculous to change to Morrissey . |
14 | Who perhaps found it attractive . |
15 | Even those who were prepared to join in found it difficult to understand what the camp was trying to achieve . |
16 | Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god |
17 | But , years later , Liz found herself visiting the Freud museum in Berggasse in Vienna , and there she suddenly saw it all — the red walls , the figurines , and , perhaps most distinctively , the predominance of red carpet-cushions , the characteristic mixture of Persian geometric patterns on floor and couch — a Jewish mixture , a Viennese mixture , a Freudian mixture ? |
18 | And the keynote speaker at the Republican Convention , Thomas Kean , Governor of New Jersey , apparently felt it necessary to assert that ‘ we will search out bigotry and racism — we will drag it into the sunshine of understanding and make it wither and die ’ . |
19 | The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution . |
20 | he only did it last year |
21 | ‘ But I only bought it last year , ’ he insisted , holding up the ancient object . |
22 | and then only had it four years , but I used to it was , it 's such a waste that washing machine , I think maybe I 've done a few shirts hand washing and all the water , whereas in the twin tub I 'd of done the light weights , heated the water up done the shirts and , erm , got the put in , maybe towels and then I 'd put , re-heat the water if , if it was n't really soiled and I could do either all the dogs stuff or , or my dusters |
23 | The driver added : ‘ The company naturally wanted it all kept quiet . |
24 | Now you put the fire out the las so set it all nice and easy . |
25 | She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open . |
26 | The next door seemed to be a likely one , it was not quite closed , so she gently pushed it open — gently , just in case she was wrong , and it was a bedroom . |
27 | Just made it worse . |
28 | But that just made it worse . |
29 | Despite the fact that he had come from a long line of soldier forebears , even the combination of breeding , upbringing and training no longer made it easy for him to bear the tedium of army life with good grace . |
30 | While Hurley remained preoccupied with inter-agency projects like Operation Goldenrod , Ganem soon made it clear to Coleman that he had little patience with Hurley 's intelligence operations . |