Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 2 | The scream cam from quite a way away , but it penetrated easily the thick walls of the study . |
| 3 | In practical terms this meant that , say , creating the illusion of a glass of wine was relatively easy , since it involved merely the subtle shifting of light patterns . |
| 4 | In the first stage , however , it proposed only the closer co-ordination of EC currencies through the ERM . |
| 5 | It caused probably the first mythical switchboard ( since phones were only just installed ) , the cancelling of the Thursday night repeat was discussed in Parliament , Prince Philip loved it , Peter Cushing ( as Winston ) became a star , and the genuine sewer rats used for ‘ that ’ sequence all passed out under the studio lights . |
| 6 | A fifth of all the party 's gains were made in the West Midlands and it achieved double the national swing in the region , writes David Graves . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , as is well known , a simple design leaves all elements within it exposed so the simpler the concept , the better the execution required to pull it off successfully . |
| 8 | In terms of this country , in particular , you said that it , it started roughly the same time because of the , the legislation in nineteen oh nine . |
| 9 | It brought together the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) , members of the German Forum Party ( DFP — some of whom had earlier joined the DSU — see p. 37171 ) , and the East German Free Democratic Party ( Freie demokratische Partei — FDP ) . |
| 10 | It brought home the obvious points , I suppose . |
| 11 | It looked just the same . |
| 12 | That was what it was , but it hurt just the same , his open contempt of her . |
| 13 | To them it meant primarily the sweeping away of restrictions and prohibitions , on particular forms of trade , on the free choice of a profession or occupation , on the practice of minority forms of religion . |
| 14 | He disputed Lenin 's contention that imperialism constitutes the last stage of capitalism , arguing that in Latin America it represented only the first stage . |
| 15 | Plato 's main ( if misguided ) objection to traditional art was that it represented only the limited reality of the empirical world . |
| 16 | New York-based Computer Outsourcing Services Inc , which said it wanted to make acquisitions when it went public the other day , has signed a definitive agreement to acquire a private New York-based provider of billing and payroll services to companies in the home health care industry on a four-year earnout . |
| 17 | It went quicker the closer you were to a clock . |
| 18 | It took away the normal drudgery of long flights with little radio contact and constant headings . |
| 19 | Nothing very special here , then , to herald the arrival of little William ; but just as that year brought in the new , so it took away the old : Benjamin Titford the Outrider 's widow Elizabeth , 70 years old and paralysed , died in Shoreditch Workhouse on 12 September . |
| 20 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 21 | The vehicle shot forward , and as it did so the first rocks from above came hurtling down onto the track just behind us . |
| 22 | As it did so the death-like covering of flour fell from its face . |
| 23 | It gave easily the best value . |
| 24 | It appeared exactly the same — its walls hung with innumerable paintings , prints and photographs , their frames dull with years , their glass wavy and opaque so that the subjects had lost whatever initial impact they had and were now just pictures collecting dust . |
| 25 | Too rapidly , however , Mussolini became the junior partner , carrying out the Führer 's personal wishes and dragging Italy into a disastrous war when it had neither the industrial base of Germany , nor Hitler 's personal enthusiasm for total war . |
| 26 | Charlotte did not phrase her response as a rebuke , but it had much the same effect . |
| 27 | It had perhaps the largest and strangest range of tickets for any railway of its size . |
| 28 | The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia . |