Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] it [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English department did it last term . |
| 2 | Why when he had lavished so much care and time , not to mention a medium-sized fortune on this aeroplane did it let him down so utterly ? |
| 3 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 4 | Gina 's Italian and French ancestry made it come more naturally . |
| 5 | The repetitive , uniform appearance of the soldier-like trees made it seem as if the car was scarcely moving , and their silent , gloomy shade gradually eased the tension created inside the Citron by the earlier near-accident . |
| 6 | What popular impact did it have ? |
| 7 | The darkening river made it sound hollow . |
| 8 | So , although the events leading up to the Civil War made it seem desirable to Hobbes to write De Cive before the completion of De Homine , his finding this possible was not inconsistent with his conception of a three-part ordered system of Elements of Philosophy . |
| 9 | Clever lighting made it seem airy even though there was little light from the street . |
| 10 | And how much time did it take to make the coffin ? |
| 11 | He anticipated and insured himself for the re-emergence of Richard Nixon from the political wilderness in 1968 , and correctly judged that Ronald Reagan would defeat Jimmy Carter in 1980 ( which was not such an inevitable result as the next eight years made it seem ) . |
| 12 | The fact that there was no sense of any history of lesbian and gay struggle in any of these articles made it seem incomprehensible why any council would have adopted any policy or set up any unit to serve the needs of lesbians and gays . |
| 13 | ‘ Only in the last three years did it get in the way of anything and I was n't able to do any bounding ( a vital exercise in training ) or , in the end , any high jumping . ’ |
| 14 | The FTSE Index was 18 points up at 10pm but this was later halved before a later rally saw it close 12.1 points up at 2363.5 . |
| 15 | In few cases in the later eighteenth century did it extend to improving the housing of the urban poor , crammed in their squalid suburbs in Chichester and Lewes or in the back yards , behind the better houses , in Battle . |
| 16 | Images of food drew it onwards to the tall , detached house at the end of the street ; thoughts of petting and cuddling from its playful , pleasant owners made it scamper through the shadows . |
| 17 | How many necks did it have ? |
| 18 | And how many bedrooms did it have ? |
| 19 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 20 | The severe straits in which the Treasury found itself after the Crimean War made it seem quite impractical to seek a solution which involved increasing the duties of officialdom . |
| 21 | THE FT-SE 100-Share Index fell nearly 50 points by mid-afternoon yesterday and was in imminent danger of dropping below 2,900 before a late rally helped it recover to close at 2,915.9 , down 37.5 on the day , in busy trading . |
| 22 | What negative beliefs did it reinforce ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not sure Peter saw it like that . ’ |
| 24 | And how many men did it need to ring the bells ? |
| 25 | In Roman times , Oloron was already a place of substance , by name Iluro , but after the Romans went it was much attacked , by invading Vascons from Spain , by Arabs , and by Vikings ; only in the eleventh century did it recover , under the counts of Béarn . |
| 26 | How many folks did it carry ? ’ and when he refused to answer , added stiffly : ‘ Jess … that 's what I 'm called , ’ as a first move to soften him — and then remembered she was supposed to be a boy . |
| 27 | Did you how many strikes did it take to get entry ? |
| 28 | Only in a few cosmetic details did it owe anything to French or other West European influences . |
| 29 | Such was the feeling Joss Barnet had aroused in her , that not for one moment did it occur to her to blame him for anything . |
| 30 | But on the contrary Willie made it seem a prop of the work , like ripe thighs in a chorus girl or the swivel eye of Ben Turpin . |