Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she let it fall open , and began to read immediately , as if she had known it , ‘ 'Why , [ Mrs Ramsay ] asked , pressing her chin on James ’ head , should they grow up so fast ? |
| 2 | He let it come erect , then looked at it , with Hannele in his mind 's eye simultaneously . |
| 3 | The wind was in the right direction , and she heard it strike ten — and then eleven . |
| 4 | Few saw it like that at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not sure Peter saw it like that . ’ |
| 6 | Hari half lifted half pushed him through the window and then she waited breathlessly for any sounds that would indicate that Will had been discovered , but when there was nothing , she moved to the door and to her relief , she saw it swing open . |
| 7 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 8 | An organisation once the size of a Station now resided in one small corner of the airfield at Wyton but it maintained the excellent tradition that saw it produce many thousands of aircrew . |
| 9 | Felt it scrape first on a soft surface and then on a surface smooth like metal . |
| 10 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 11 | ‘ Aa made it nobbut two days sen . |
| 12 | You made it go wonky and it did n't then ! |
| 13 | There was no one thing that made it go wrong . |
| 14 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
| 15 | For though the boat 's interior was a masterpiece of functional yet elegant design which created an impression of light , airy spaciousness , the very presence of Nathan Bryce made it feel cramped and claustrophobic . |
| 16 | Being with the nuns only made it feel worse . |
| 17 | He took her body and he made it come alive . |
| 18 | By the early 1970s , however , the situation looked more favourable ; the reorganization of teacher education following the 1972 White Paper and the run-down of initial teacher training made it seem feasible to redeploy resources to raise the quality of the teaching force in further education . |
| 19 | ‘ But with Barney being so ill , and with Cara being so upset , it made it seem awful that I would n't spend an hour of my life doing this one big thing for her . ’ |
| 20 | The wind coursed over it and flapped it — little whip noises that stirred it and made it seem alive , the dog-face scowling . |
| 21 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 22 | He made it seem easy — that was different : that was the pride of the macho Valley rugby player . |
| 23 | ‘ Obviously it 's hard work , ’ she adds , ‘ but it really struck a chord with me and that made it seem easy . |
| 24 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |
| 25 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 26 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 27 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 28 | The living-room was no more than fifteen feet square ; but pale colours and a huge window made it seem larger . |
| 29 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 30 | He made it seem important and Special . |