Example sentences of "[to-vb] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 2 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 3 | On Aug. 16 , as a shipment of UN relief arrived for the first time in the southern port of Kismayo , a local militia which had been hired to protect it stole 600 tonnes of food and fuel . |
| 4 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 5 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 6 | She had to admit it looked that way . |
| 7 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |