Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 Zuwaya used it to evoke absence of government , freedom ; but any anthropologist would feel inclined to explore the unstated aspects of this way of life , not brought to prominence in contemporary discussion because they were not much use in argument : ‘ In the old days you had no government , but how did you keep peace and order — who settled quarrels ? who punished thieves and rapists ? ’
2 It was too heavy to turn in the wind , but it mattered little to know which way the wind was blowing : wherever it blew it blew word of the miraculous pageant and the Angel Gabriel .
3 And erm for summer then we put some here and some seaweed and it made it look kind of queer like but Mr Davis our art teacher just thought it would make it look more interesting .
4 Not only did it have bundles of games and demos ( the only games I have enough money to buy ) but also pages of reviews !
5 Not only did it increase understanding of both quantitative and qualitative indicators , it also focused teachers ' attention on issues of quality in their work .
6 In 1884 , when he finished the first version of his set ( he revised it to form part of his Klavierübung in 1922 ) , Busoni was only eighteen , but he was always a practised composer , with an enormous quantity of piano music to his credit — indeed , he had composed five Sonatas and a host of other pieces for all sorts of forces before he was fifteen .
7 The CSO cautioned it regarded comparisons of the volume figures as distorted by the impact of the dock strike on August and September returns .
8 While Nottinghamshire said it had messages of support from local authorities across the country , legal experts sided with the Appeal Court .
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