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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	Yes , I only found it this morning by accident , I thought oh god
16	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 ?
17	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 ’ .
18	The Four Horse Men of the Apocalypse apparently felt it inappropriate to arrive as a messenger of divine retribution .
19	he only did it last year
20	‘ But I only bought it last year , ’ he insisted , holding up the ancient object .
21	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
22	The driver added : ‘ The company naturally wanted it all kept quiet .
23	Now you put the fire out the las so set it all nice and easy .
24	She walked up the wide , white steps and gently pushed it open .
25	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 .
26	Just made it worse .
27	But that just made it worse .
28	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 .
29	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 .
30	But Christian soon made it clear that his plans had nothing to do with the fire at the manor , although he admitted that Tom being placed in charge of the manor farm did affect what he had in mind .