Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb past] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The markings about its eyes made it savage , wolf-like , but it was only a fox , more discomposed than she at the meeting . |
| 2 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 3 | which finger did it bite , this little finger on my right |
| 4 | Which royalty did it belong to ? |
| 5 | Only in the last months of her life did it appear that her policy might not be sustained , because of the changed situation in England and France . |
| 6 | Which way did it go ? |
| 7 | It provides an alternative and bizarre answer to the question " Which way did it go ? " , namely " Every which way " . |
| 8 | Number two , here 's one for mum , the dahlia is popular in Britain , from which country did it originate ? |
| 9 | The dahlia , which country did it originate from ? |
| 10 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 11 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 12 | What effect did it have on his private life ? |
| 13 | Only what good did it do to admit it ? |
| 14 | What difference did it make , if you were a woman ? |
| 15 | What difference did it make to your work that you 'd come from outside the television industry ? |
| 16 | He already hated her , so what difference did it make ? |
| 17 | What difference did it make ? |
| 18 | But what difference did it make . |
| 19 | So at what point did it cease to be so ? |
| 20 | What chance did it stand ? |
| 21 | What royalty did it belong to ? |
| 22 | What impression did it give ? |
| 23 | ‘ What time did it start ? ’ |
| 24 | What time did it finish ? |
| 25 | ‘ What time did it ring ? ’ |
| 26 | How much of a difference to your family did it make that you were working , financially ? |