Example sentences of "[vb past] it [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , however , saw it my own way . |
| 2 | John Hill had queried Miller 's description and had published his views in Eden , or a Complete Body of Gardening ( 1759 ) and Justice retaliated in his British Gardener 's Calendar ( 1759 ) : ‘ I thought it my indispensable duty to give Mr. Miller his due , both from a love of truth and from a sense of gratitude to him for his public labours , as well as private friendship . ’ |
| 3 | Ten years after Anselm 's death , when the tide of criticism was running strongly against Anselm at Canterbury for his failure to obtain a secure basis for the primatial claims , Eadmer thought it his best praise that he had allowed the monks to manage their own affairs . |
| 4 | The rewards of motherhood made it her main source of self-esteem and satisfaction . |
| 5 | His lifelong passion for natural history began in childhood , and he made it his prime duty to popularize the subject , writing fourteen books for the layman . |
| 6 | Grand Lodge Librarian and Curator John Hamill made it his first priority to assure me that ‘ freemasonry contains neither pagan nor occult practices ’ . |
| 7 | He made it his golden rule never to attack the Tories without attacking Labour , to keep equidistant between the two parties , to declare constantly that he was appalled by the thought of coalition with either , and would only undertake this under what he saw as a clear ( if only mathematical ) directive from the voters . |
| 8 | James made it his personal business to know everyone else 's . |
| 9 | And although they felt some roads would be too narrow , committee members on Thursday gave it their general support . |
| 10 | Delaney made his way through the crew door into the cavernous section of the C130 that gave it its friendly nick-name of Fat Albert . |
| 11 | Raymond and Agnes , or the Castle of Lindenberg , play adapted by M. G. Lewis from his novel Ambrosio , or the Monk ; first produced in 1809 , and in other versions later ; the introduction of the character of the Bleeding Nun gave it its popular title . |
| 12 | Galla , Somali , Gurage , people from the subject kingdom of Kaffa , negroes from the west , mingled on the streets with their Amhara and Tigrean overlords ; but it was these latter who dominated the scene , imposed their stamp upon the town and gave it its unique character . |
| 13 | The danger , as Andrei Gavrilov hints at elsewhere in this issue , is that the large emigration of musicians to the West that has taken place since restrictions were relaxed may mean that Russian musical life will lose those very qualities that not only made it technically of such high standing but that also gave it its unique flavour . |
| 14 | Each dust particle inherits the characteristic defect structure of the parent clay that did the damming , the structure that gave it its damming properties . |
| 15 | ‘ I gave it my best shot . ’ |
| 16 | You dealt with one thing at a time , gave it your whole attention , decided it , then put it aside . |
| 17 | Saleh visited Saudi Arabia on Feb. 25 and held talks there with King Fahd , who said that he backed Yemeni unity " absolutely and without any reservations " and gave it his personal blessing as well as that of the Saudi people and government . |
| 18 | Sharing the beauty and tranquillity of this location with a few other houses , a former farm building was initially converted into a restaurant in about 1970 and rapidly acquired local fame thanks to the good cooking and the able management of the owner who gave it his own name ‘ Leonetto ’ . |
| 19 | Normally the trip to St Tropez would have been Alyssia 's idea , but when , the following morning , Piers suggested it her only reaction was to wince with distaste . |
| 20 | Perhaps Dr Dalton considered it his conjugal right . |