Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was the first time South Africa has admitted it possessed nuclear weapons , though the United States government suggested as long ago as 1979 that Pretoria might possess an atom bomb after a satellite detected two nuclear-like flashes over Antarctic waters to the south of Cape Town . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 12 | Also , although he would have denied it had any influence at all , Ketura had told him Jeopardy used that court , and that he always practised early . |
| 13 | I 've used this one in the studio and I 've heard it used live , and in both instances it made a positive contribution to the sound . |
| 14 | I worked beside Bill and when he had to resign it seemed appropriate for me to step forward . |
| 15 | Vern had jammed it shut last night . |
| 16 | She had to admit it looked that way . |