Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used it to attack paternalistic officialdom and to articulate demands for social progress : ‘ I 'd tell people to forget their old ordinary life because ultimately , anyhow , we 'll either have a better life than that , or bust . ’ |
| 2 | Agrippa claimed he used it to make sure wine was free of poison , though I do n't think it was possible for Agrippa to die . |
| 3 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 4 | He also reminded the Association that the registration procedure would take time and invited it to nominate three north country shipowners to visit the London head office of the union , inspect all books and documents relating to membership and funds in order to satisfy themselves that it was a bona fide organisation . |
| 5 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 6 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 7 | The land belongs to the Bureau of Land Management ( BLM ) , which could have hundreds of thousands of sites , the National Park Service , which identified 2,400 hazardous mines , and the Forest Service , which estimated it has 25,000 mine sites . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest . |
| 10 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 11 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 12 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 13 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 14 | The concert and the reception which followed it generated considerable interest in , as well as funds for , the Alumni Foundation . |
| 15 | The December 1989 coup attempt and the abortive revolts which followed it damaged international investor confidence in the Philippines . |
| 16 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |
| 19 | Ben called it breaking new ground ; she herself would have put it ‘ widening her scope ’ . |
| 20 | But at times last season I felt it took second place from a few other clubs . ’ |
| 21 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 22 | I thought it started next week ? . |
| 23 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 24 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 25 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 26 | Tests revealed it contained formic acid , which a doctor from Newcastle University said could be lethal to a child if only teaspoonful was swallowed . |
| 27 | Did it form any part of the Council 's ? |
| 28 | And did it make any difference , theologically speaking , whether he knew or not ? |
| 29 | Or did it make any difference either way ? |
| 30 | " Did it make any difference to your light ? " |