Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] [art] " 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 | However , seeing as I was in Rosslare that day , it amused me to keep an eye out for the car he 'd described . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available . |
| 6 | But it helped me to gain a deeper appreciation of what is involved . |
| 7 | It excited her to feel a man like him shudder as he pressed himself against her , to feel his weakness underneath all that Parisian aplomb . |
| 8 | It advised him to forgive the man and pray for him to have a change of heart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once . |
| 13 | Aaron ( 7 ) was given an entrance exam which he passed and it allowed him to jump a grade . |
| 14 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Furthermore , the window of his college bedroom was cherished in his memory because it enabled him to see the Antechapel of Trinity College , |
| 20 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But Lachlan still refused , though it hurt him to miss a fight . |
| 24 | It embarrassed her to remember the way Maurin had attracted her but she must not let that embarrassment colour the way she acted now . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As soon as the handshake was complete , Charlotte turned away , eager to look elsewhere for the instant it took her to absorb the simple fact of his marriage . |
| 27 | In the twenty minutes or so it took them to reach the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , Fabia basked in the warmth of her happy memories of her splendid morning . |
| 28 | In the end there could only be one option for de Gaulle , but the time it took him to make the decision indicated how difficult it was . |
| 29 | Vincent spoke almost enviously of the miners ' darkness , and the chance it gave them to reclaim the light . |
| 30 | If it supplied the name for a gang ( the Blue Pearl Gang ) , it left you to invent the enrolment ritual — in our case , peeing into a bottle and letting lighter fuel burn on the palm of your hand . |