Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got so bad FBI agents had to stay at my house to protect me from religious extremists whipped up by their campaign . ’ |
| 2 | It got underway this morning with a spectacular mass lift-off . |
| 3 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 4 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 5 | It kept the Navigation Acts up to date , but under Walpole 's premiership in the 1720s and 1730s it passed so little legislation of any general application even within Britain that it was quite natural for it to do nothing about the colonies . |
| 6 | The company says that while it expected somewhat lower revenue in the first quarter because of seasonal factors and a product transition to R4000-based systems , the revenue decline was principally down to deferrals in customer orders and licensing activity as a result of the announcement of the proposed merger deal . |
| 7 | It concerned only new developments and enabled local authorities for the first time to make town-planning schemes ‘ as respects any land which is in course of development or appears likely to be used for building purposes ’ . |
| 8 | It became just another story from Central America . |
| 9 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 10 | It became quite big business . |
| 11 | It became too much trouble sometimes even to go to the Camp Cinema . |
| 12 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
| 13 | As one of the best records of 1990 it was actually a lucky escape that it sold so few copies , missed Top Of The Pops , slipped the chance of a slot on youth TV and lost the chase for Sunday newspaper publicity . |
| 14 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
| 15 | A massive , grey stone Victorian building , it housed over 1600 inmates , twice its allotted amount . |
| 16 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |
| 17 | Yet , perhaps because it was not televised , it produced mighty little stir . |
| 18 | Since it enabled employers to replace the two-shift with a three-shift system in the mines , it produced little real improvement in miners ' living standards . |
| 19 | When the Labour government was elected in 1945 , it produced more radical proposals — nationalisation of the local authority and voluntary hospitals . |
| 20 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 21 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 22 | It made very little impact . |
| 23 | Indeed it made very few references to the Mediterranean initiative unlike the heavy coverage of the Soviet scheme to neutralise the Persian Gulf . |
| 24 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 25 | It 's quite rare , which is why it made so much publicity . |
| 26 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 27 | It made as little impression on me then as it does now . ’ |
| 28 | I would n't believe it made that much difference do you ? |
| 29 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 30 | In the western provinces , where the newly established , populist , Reform Party had campaigned strongly against the agreement on the grounds that it made too many concessions to Quebec , the margins of rejection were the highest in the country . |