Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
| 2 | Critics of policies of that period like Samuel Brittan have suggested that chancellors found it difficult to time their uses of the economic ‘ brake ’ or ‘ accelerator ’ properly , and that the ‘ stop-go ’ pattern that emerged provided a poor economic environment for investment decisions , and thus inhibited British growth . |
| 3 | North European businesses found it satisfactory to farm out big clerical jobs to London agencies , and international corporations making domestic appliances found the nimble-fingered women of the North and Midlands surprisingly to their taste . |
| 4 | the end of the last straw you see , so I went in the Co-Op and I felt really , really fed up , I said I oh I said I could cry I said because I 've tried so hard I said not for lending you money I said , I 'm not meant to have any sodding luck so got a couple of bits and I really could n't get me act together and on the Tuesday dad 's gone in hospital with that fit , so I was thinking of him a lot and I thought I do n't know dad , you know I 'm sure , I 'm sure that he were n't gon na come out when he went in there , I thought they were gon na bloody find something with you boy and that would be it , so I come home here and I ai n't done no work , so I started off for work , both sitting here bloody bawling cos this house looked like shit , spoke to me sister on the phone and er I felt a bit better so I thought oh I 'd start doing the tree , so I pulled it all to bits in here , got the polish and duster out , put all the bread and everything for Alan 's sandwiches , it 'd be about oh , about half past twelve and the bloody phone went it was mum , she said Lyn do you think you can come up to the hospital with me , cos I 've got no transport and so I said what 's up then mum ? |
| 5 | These occasions would clearly refer only to the more serious incidents where the Football Association felt it necessary to discipline clubs formally , and many more examples of hooliganism can be found in the newspapers of the period . |
| 6 | Sent it all to Viv with all the details , broke all the reference |
| 7 | Nevertheless she thought it best to humour him and sat down on the side of the table away from him and put her clasped hands on its polished top . |
| 8 | No seriously , you get so much shit at work , if you took it all to heart , you know , you 'd just crack up , and the way I deal with stress like , you know , someone 's made my day . |
| 9 | took it all to pieces , cleaned it up all inside it 's great , I thought right I 'll take it outside and I 'll try it now |
| 10 | One of the congressional critics , Representative Henry Waxman from California , however , said that the lack of thorough testing made it impossible to gauge water quality accurately . |
| 11 | The introduction of bell-hanging in the late eighteenth century made it possible to station servants quite out of earshot , behind the green baize door . |
| 12 | The thing that made it attractive to Paneth and Peters , and years later to Pons , Fleischmann and Jones , was its great affinity for hydrogen — it can absorb up to 900 times its own volume of the gas . |
| 13 | He made it clear to Law that he did not think that Law was well qualified to be leader and that he reserved the right to contest any future vacancy , but Austen was too loyal a man to conspire ; relations were not very friendly , but there was total cooperation . |
| 14 | He made it clear to Verdeţ that some way around his promises would have to be found , but one which would not simply revive the workers ' militancy . |
| 15 | JS advertisements made it clear to customers they could expect higher standards from Sainsbury 's . |
| 16 | No wonder she made it clear to Shelley that she was wasting her time . |
| 17 | That was unthinkable to the British generals , even though Napoleon III made it clear to Lord Palmerston that he did not intend to usurp the command and so the problem would not arise . |
| 18 | While Hurley remained preoccupied with inter-agency projects like Operation Goldenrod , Ganem soon made it clear to Coleman that he had little patience with Hurley 's intelligence operations . |
| 19 | France made it clear to New Zealand that it would allow more imports of lamb and dairy products into France if New Zealand reduced the charge against the couple to manslaughter and then deported them . |
| 20 | Despite press speculation that GM might be offered a modified deal on Land Rover ( 49 per cent of the shares ) , the government eventually made it clear to GM that Land Rover was not part of the Leyland Vehicles deal , and as a result GM withdrew its offer . |
| 21 | Whereas they made it clear to his wife that they would never forsake her , they also made it clear to Tawell that he would never be accepted . |
| 22 | But the dispute also made it clear to President Chamorro that the Nicaraguan left is still a force to be reckoned with . |
| 23 | In London , UK ministers called for those responsible for the November killings to be brought to justice but made it clear to Alatas that the UK , the second-largest arms supplier to Indonesia after the USA , would not cut off aid or arms sales . |
| 24 | We think it would also be useful if the Director General of Fair Trading made it clear to traders that advocating follow-on credit is unfair , and expect ( from what they told us ) that the National Consumer Credit Federation and Consumer Credit Association would support him in persuading traders to abandon the practice . |
| 25 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 26 | However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus . |
| 27 | He emerged from the subsequent libel trial against the Daily Star with his reputation intact and £500,000 in damages ( he gave it all to charity ) , but his victory came too late to save his political career . |
| 28 | Well what she bought she gave it all to Mary because she had Ben 's birthday party . |
| 29 | My favourite cartoon is of a businessman standing in Wall Street selling boxes of matches and around his neck is a placard which says : ‘ I left it all to expert advice . ’ |
| 30 | The one she had n't seen for twelve years , had been ranting about , who never raised a finger to help and left it all to Nancy ? |