Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government , denying that it held any political prisoners , ordered the women to end their protest , saying that opposition supporters were taking advantage of it to cause unrest . |
| 2 | Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’ |
| 3 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 4 | Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure . |
| 5 | She opened a small round leather box to find that it contained tiny gold collar studs and several pairs of cuff links . |
| 6 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 7 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 8 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 9 | Boswell certainly did not consider that it merited more than a brief mention , and was in no way put out by it . |
| 10 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 11 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 12 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 13 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 14 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 15 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 16 | The value of prosection was stressed since it offered three dimensional knowledge to the medical students and post-graduates and many future surgeons would be trained to dissect and explore the body through these preparations . |
| 17 | And erm you know the erm er , I , I do n't know whether it had any adjustment changes or what , but |
| 18 | Yet a regression from those principles soon occurred after it became apparent that the orderly industrial relations which were sought were not being achieved ( Levine , 1958 ; Barkin , 1980 ) . |
| 19 | It will act as it did last Friday , with determination and sensitivity . |
| 20 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |
| 21 | When , in 1884 , G. T. Clark [ q.v. ] published his Mediaeval Military Architecture in England , she realized that it contained false assumptions about the origins of the various mounds or mottes scattered over the British Isles . |
| 22 | Baron of Buchlyvie was brought into the ring and everyone agreed that it looked magnificent . |
| 23 | The city used to claim that it had some of the cleanest air in Latin America . |
| 24 | On June 18 the military-led government announced that it had pre-empted a coup attempt led by the Minister of Public Works and Transport , Col. Abbas Koty . |
| 25 | They listened to the Black story and admitted that it had important implications . |
| 26 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 27 | One participant argued that it had potential , but that that potential was not being used to the full . |
| 28 | Although PRO wo n't confirm that it paid some $600,000 for the suite ( UX No 406 ) , the decision to plump for 88open 's testing technology was thought to be purely financial : ‘ we could n't afford to spend that kind of money developing our own alternative , so we bought in . ’ |
| 29 | The lengthy minutes of the meeting [ KP 115 ] show that it covered four main subjects . |
| 30 | Some of my colleagues have accepted that it became discredited , but they are still trying to a certain degree to defend it . |