Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Straight away though , despite the technical wizardry of the medium , he found it had its limitations . |
| 2 | Having dragged it over , she stood on it with care , and found it brought her eyes level with the frieze . |
| 3 | But economic success may not be the only benefit of a martial-arts way of life : Yukiso Yamamoto , a famous aikidoist , found it helped his marriage too . |
| 4 | Apart from learning something about front-end loaded deals and arbitrageurs Maxim found it restored his faith in American trains . |
| 5 | In the present study 60% of incontinent subjects were concerned or worried about their incontinence and 34%-45% felt it affected their lifestyle considerably . |
| 6 | Though I had always disliked Christmas , because I knew it made my mother unhappy for some reason , that was one Christmas when I was happy , and I have never forgotten it . |
| 7 | The bathroom — which was lavish even by Mayfair standards — was all glass and cool , muted blues , which had looked lovely when she had put it in , but which she now thought was cold and vaguely forbidding , and as she pulled off her pyjama top , she thought it made her flesh look white and dead . |
| 8 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 9 | But did it surprised its writer ? |
| 10 | IBM Personal Systems Business Unit Europe/Middle East/Africa says it had record volume of sales in the first quarter of this year , and points to Dataquest figures suggesting that it outshipped its nearest competitor by 66% during the last quarter of 1992 and the first quarter of 1993 — gaining 4% in market share over the previous six months ; the company also said it reorganised its manufacturing and distribution operations at its Greenock , Scotland , plant , cutting distribution costs for its ValuePoint and ThinkPad brands by more than 65% , cutting its inventory by 17% since the end of 1992 ; this magnitude of savings will also be realised for the PS/2 and PS/1 lines this year . |
| 11 | I said it hurt my eyes too much . |
| 12 | I think she was twenty-eight when she learned to milk , and she said it made her knees shake . |
| 13 | I do n't like being called sir , and the way he said it made my flesh grue . |
| 14 | The group said it increased its share of deposits outside France and had been active in capital markets , where it gained notoriety last year for backing Giancarlo Paretti , the failed MGM film studio owner . |
| 15 | Mr Fleming said it moulded their minds : Madness and the Moors . |
| 16 | He said it missed her head by inches , while they watched election coverage on television last night . |
| 17 | ‘ Whoever stole it played his cards well . |
| 18 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |