Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 2 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 3 | Christina cringed as Susanna pronounced it the American way . |
| 4 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 5 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 6 | ‘ I knew Faye had some complications and needed a nurse — Tom mentioned it the other day — but I had no idea you were a sort of watchdog as well . |
| 7 | The king personally rewarded him with the Victorian Order , fourth class , but broke off relations when the disgruntled recipient of the decoration returned it the following day . |
| 8 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 10 | ‘ Garvin put it the other way : if it was me , there 'd be trouble . ’ |
| 11 | Because I 've had it for four years now and I 'm you know a woman touched it the other day and she got really paranoid . |
| 12 | Looking at it , Jess thought it the grandest place she 'd ever seen . |
| 13 | I thought , I mean I , the fire people gave it the all clear . |
| 14 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 15 | The teachers said it the English way , |
| 16 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 17 | James Brown made it the perfunctory Single Of The Week and concentrated mainly on the depth of lyrical content . |
| 18 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 19 | In the south level 37,000 acres went under water , and the chief engineer of the Great Ouse catchment board considered it the worst fen flood since the time of Vermuyden . |
| 20 | By 1225 the loss of Poitiers and La Rochelle made it the effective capital of the remaining Plantagenet dominions . |
| 21 | Sandy and Dave had it the same . |