Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 4 | I worked beside Bill and when he had to resign it seemed appropriate for me to step forward . |
| 5 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 6 | Airtours ' chairman , David Crossland , blamed his defeat on what he called ‘ the spoiling action ’ of the eleventh-hour intervention by Thomas Cook , the German-controlled travel agency , which on Monday snapped up 8.4 per cent of Owners to try to ensure it remained independent . |
| 7 | The French pursued him , however , and although it is doubtful whether the prince intended to force them to fight it became clear that a battle could not be avoided . |
| 8 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 9 | They regard it as an ideal way to familiarise themselves with the latest legislative and other changes and are sometimes reluctant to delegate the task or to see it rendered unnecessary , as is the case with the microfilm system described below . |
| 10 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 11 | The desire to recover it drove many black peasants to support the nationalist guerrillas in the war against white minority rule . |
| 12 | ‘ It would be inappropriate in me to say it felt un-British , ’ Carrington said , at last . |
| 13 | There must have been about nine or ten of them — all men except for one woman — and they tried to say it took all of them to restrain me . |
| 14 | She had to admit it looked that way . |
| 15 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |