Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | For the most part it concerned the speakers ' contemporary experience . |
2 | It became the Parents ' National Education Union in 1892 as branches developed in several cities . |
3 | It made the models ' sacrifice of their modesty seem poignantly vain . |
4 | The Gulf crisis complicated the budgetary position in that it made the negotiators ' original $50,000 million deficit reduction target appear unrealistically high , while increasing the threat of the economy being pushed into recession . |
5 | They unanimously held that on its wording it limited the sellers ' liability to the cost of replacing the seed . |
6 | The cause of the pain was attributed to gall bladder irritability , as it resembled the patients ' original attacks of biliary colic ; yet on cholecystoscopy at or after 10 days only one patient had appreciable mucosal inflammatory change . |
7 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
8 | The collapse was not directly linked to the motor car side , but it threatened the cars ' future . |
9 | It took the players ' bargaining committee less than three hours to reject what they considered an ultimatum . |
10 | The testing confirmed that the scoring system was accurate and predictive , and to a great extent it mirrored the underwriters ' own subjective analysis calculated on a case-by-case basis . |