Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 2 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 3 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 6 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 7 | Thus , the author felt it appropriate to justify the monarchy , without explicitly rebutting a critical challenge , for none explicitly seemed to exist . |
| 8 | Supply problems during the war made it seem madness to postpone further the steps necessary to improve communications and construct strategic railways . |
| 9 | Not until the evening did it come into its own , with the opening of its restaurants . |
| 10 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 11 | Sometimes she sat on the end of his divan if she could n't sleep and tried to wake him up to talk , but he slept with the heaviness of the very thin , and her weight on the divan made it sag and creak in a way that embarrassed her . |
| 12 | I prodded with my pole , but somehow the current made it cling , and I found I could n't shake Casey away . |
| 13 | The media made it happen . |
| 14 | Some power in the air made it vibrate . |
| 15 | While the councillors felt it appropriate that the Church Hall should be put to some use they objected to the proposal for a function room and made the following points : |
| 16 | What the hell did it mean ? |
| 17 | ‘ What the hell did it matter where they were going , ’ mused Billy , ‘ this was living . ’ |
| 18 | What the hell did it matter ? |
| 19 | He would ask what the hell did it matter where he had been , now that he was here ? |
| 20 | Oh , what the hell did it matter now ? |
| 21 | How the hell did it happen ? |
| 22 | How the hell did it happen ? |
| 23 | " How the hell did it happen ? |
| 24 | What the hell did it have to do with her whether he looked good , bad or indifferent ? |
| 25 | And when did they actually terminate the employment did it take effect from the eighteenth of June or what ? |
| 26 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
| 27 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh had been left with an uneasy feeling that neither case was as straightforward as the reports made it appear , but certainly there was no prima facie evidence of foul play in connection with either of the two deaths . |
| 29 | The procedures of the system made it seem overwhelmingly complex : the visits , the record cards of teachers and helpers , the correspondence with employers , the labour exchange forms , the committee structure , and their numerous meetings . |
| 30 | And a lady writing from Bristol , who achieved a DIY funeral herself : ‘ Keeping the funeral in the family made it warm and home-like . |