Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unix Labs did manage to walk away from Judge Debevoise 's courtroom with a minor victory : it got him to set the record straight as to how many copies of 32V were actually distributed . |
| 2 | Again it amused him to note the general application of what he was beginning to think of as Wexford 's Law . |
| 3 | It asked him to omit the Foreign Secretary 's residence , and although generally to conform to the 1856 conditions , he should ascertain Hammond 's latest requirements and find out if the building could be reduced in size . |
| 4 | You can either draw it model it made me draw the last one I 'll model it this time , it 's good fun ! |
| 5 | It made me recall the list of supposed super-powers of Ardakkeans . |
| 6 | It made him regret the passing of his youth , and the ennui he had felt before her arrival had miraculously disappeared . |
| 7 | The Queen , in a red dress and pearl necklace , said it made her realise the trials and sorrows suffered by many people around the world through war , terrorism , famine , natural disaster and economic hardship . |
| 8 | ‘ He would stand there , with his Just William cap on and sing — no movements , just natural , and it made you forget the world . ’ |
| 9 | Colonel Goreng was moving away from the details of the operation to talk about the Western concept of ‘ human rights ’ , to mock it , to say what a ridiculous shibboleth it was when it stopped you defending the rights of those who were n't criminals , when Mrs Goreng knocked on the door . |
| 10 | It helped them get the over-all view of what was happening here , ’ he said . |
| 11 | One of the key determinants of US policy towards Iraq last August was that it believed it has the military forces sufficient to evict Iraq from Kuwait . |
| 12 | It advised him to forgive the man and pray for him to have a change of heart . |
| 13 | It pleased him to see the shock his words delivered , and before David could protest , he lied , ‘ You 've been a help to me since my old bones went crook , and I 'll see you get your dues when the time comes . |
| 14 | The next time it happened I reversed the procedure . |
| 15 | For the dealer who did want a good price , the procedure became a matter of negotiation , and it paid him to buy the market-maker a drink sometimes . |
| 16 | It encouraged them to break the law and used the threat of a ‘ backlash ’ to discourage the British government from compromise with Dublin , and then denounced loyalists for law-breaking . |
| 17 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 18 | As it landed he felt the repulsively soft feel of Dashwood 's skin against his own . |
| 19 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 20 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 21 | It elated her to realize the fact , to recognize the echo of her horse , struggling on the icy path , to hear the drum , to smell the wood of the fires , the crack of the crude hide tents that had been erected outside the arched gate of the ruined fortress . |
| 22 | For instance , it enabled him to use the very struggle for a subject , which had occupied so much of his line , since we can partly see that struggle as a struggle within Milton over his own humanist heritage . |
| 23 | Furthermore , the window of his college bedroom was cherished in his memory because it enabled him to see the Antechapel of Trinity College , |
| 24 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 25 | Picturesque asymmetry appealed to him because it enabled him to allow the logical sequence of the rooms and considerations of service and privacy to determine the entire plan from of the house without any unnecessary duplication of accommodation . |
| 26 | Those were his heroes , and you can look at it like thy had a defeatist attitude or were grotesquely self-indulgent — or that it enabled them to have the art . |
| 27 | It embarrassed her to remember the way Maurin had attracted her but she must not let that embarrassment colour the way she acted now . |
| 28 | What constituted a ‘ pagan ’ was a matter of definition by clerical authority ; in practice it meant what evaded the bishop 's control . |
| 29 | A fourth idea implicit in the concept of non-justiciability is that of expertise : a court might decline to review a decision or action if it felt it lacked the skill , expertise or experience to judge the issues raised by the dispute . |
| 30 | She seems to thrive on heretical statements and swimming against the tide : ‘ I look at what the cosmetic trade is doing and walk in the opposite direction , ’ she declares with the kind of outspoken defiance that has made her a retailing legend in the decade it took her to turn The Body Shop into a worldwide phenomenon . |