Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 2 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 3 | On each occasion it took time to warm a new ball . |
| 4 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 5 | When she discovered Camilla had acted as Charles 's unofficial hostess at Highgrove functions in her absence it made Diana loathe the place even more . |
| 6 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 7 | Of course it made Jews feel more Jewish . |
| 8 | The Electrophone did not diminish box office receipts — on the contrary it tempted subscribers to flock to the West End to see the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 9 | Asked whether , in this increasingly environment-conscious world it made sense to use expensive oak or metal caskets , Miss Vincent said . |
| 10 | For some reason it made Maggie think of silent music , each flicker a celestial note . |
| 11 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 13 | Either way it made sense to maintain some degree of detachment . |
| 14 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 15 | In the time it took Nick to arrive Harriet forced herself to wash and change into a clean sweatshirt , though the most mundane of everyday actions seemed a huge effort . |
| 16 | I saw a school essay containing the word ‘ yrnetn ’ for wire netting ; and only the other day the Independent Magazine carried an advertisement for Philips Dictation Systems with the interesting sentence : ‘ In the time it took Dickens to write A Tale of Two Cities he could of told us a dozen more . ’ |
| 17 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |
| 18 | But in fact it enabled staff to come up with more appropriate answers to those problems , said Edwards . |