Example sentences of "[vb pp] it [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 2 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 3 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 4 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 5 | He 's been head teacher here for seven years and has seen it get some of the best exam results in the country . |
| 6 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | ‘ I had n't quite seen it like that , ’ McLeish acknowledged humbly , remembering that the beautiful woman in front of him , whom you could not suppose ever to have encountered rejection in any form , had lost a father when young , and had been so little attached to her stepfather that she had left home at the earliest opportunity . |
| 8 | Now have you seen it like that ? |
| 9 | I have never seen it like that . |
| 10 | never ever seen it like this |
| 11 | The call of the birds has made it seem good |
| 12 | The frequency of such bids has made it seem that stockmarket valuations are arbitrary , that bidders are stealing money from somebody else rather than creating wealth , and that American and British managers spend too much time shuffling assets and too little investing ( that is , building factories ) for the future . |
| 13 | Even if Maastricht is ratified intact , the past four months have made it seem backward-looking , or even irrelevant . |
| 14 | It was probably the effect of the fog that had made it seem huge at first . |
| 15 | Have you made it look nice ! |
| 16 | In particular , the weakness of the US dollar has made it look cheap on a comparison of purchasing power . |
| 17 | Torvill and Dean have always made it look easy . |
| 18 | Observing Raskolnikov wince at the idea of eternity as a bathhouse , he murmurs ‘ with a vague smile ’ that he would certainly have made it like that himself . |