Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 2 | They might say How do you make sure it 'd pure ? |
| 3 | But as we got older it got harder and harder to talk to him ; he seemed to withdraw . |
| 4 | She took such an avid interest in all that her daughter was doing that it became stressful . |
| 5 | When this proved negative it seemed obvious that Crabb had drowned . |
| 6 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |
| 7 | To achieve this it separated operational and functional responsibilities within the practice and brought in outside professional managers who were non-accountants : principally Ray Pierce ex-chief executive of the Mortgage Corporation and a former general manager of American Express — as chief executive , and Mel Smaje , a quietly determined former rugby player with experience in the pharmaceutical and computer industries , as director of human resources . |