Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being with the nuns only made it feel worse . |
| 2 | Not only did it contain riveting performances from David Threlfall and our own Adrian Dunbar , it also delivered a fast-moving plot involving more twists than Chubby Checker . |
| 3 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 4 | Not only did it win 13 of the 14 constituency seats ( 92.9% ) : it managed to do so on an average constituency vote of no more than 43.5% , which was further reduced by the usual leakage to a list vote of 41.8% . |
| 5 | How long did it take one man . |
| 6 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 7 | She really only said it to annoy these old friends of her mother 's . |
| 8 | They just , they just did it to raise some funds , I ca n't remember why they did it . |
| 9 | We just left it blank most of the time , because The Bar was always changing its name . |
| 10 | We are all set up for the perfect ending for George to live in peace while Lennie , tended the rabbits , but somehow the author still made it seem impossible as there was always trouble brewing for them . |
| 11 | I 'd had enough of my hair looking like a toilet brush , so I always had it cut short — like Ronnie Lane 's of course — which was less hassle . |
| 12 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 13 | Roughly translated it means new beginnings — it dates back to the thirteenth century and confers a purely honourary degree — something to put in a ’ Who 's Who ’ entry . |
| 14 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 15 | This dream always seemed just around the corner as George almost made it seem possible . |
| 16 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 17 | He then altered it to read forty thousand and five pounds and transferred it into his own bank account . |
| 18 | Having walked back to the cottage , she put the ladder against the wall , then tested it to make sure it was firm . |
| 19 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 20 | Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say . |
| 21 | While this might have been expected , neither did it explore alternative ways of allowing mineworkers to use its educational resources . |
| 22 | At such moments it did not seem better to be dead than Red , neither did it seem plausible that there was a godless conspiracy at work wherever one looked . |
| 23 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
| 24 | Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort . |
| 25 | If his mother 's ambition for him was not discouraged by any of the family , neither had it occasioned much more than a passing interest . |
| 26 | But like no other yet characterised it seems able to exist and function in a large number of structural permutations . |
| 27 | For years he had preached it , he had believed it intellectually , but never had it become personal to him . |
| 28 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |
| 29 | He successfully ran it as what he wished it to remain , the last of the medieval halls ; he never wanted it to have full collegiate status . |
| 30 | Seidman in turn sued Cenco , claiming the company fraudulently induced it to give clean audits . |