Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're so well known for the ES295 Gibson guitar that it became dubbed the ‘ Scotty Moore ’ model , but you did n't use that guitar all the time , did you ? |
| 2 | It 'd smashed the cam and , and the lever and bent the shaft colossal expense at that time . |
| 3 | Formerly Prime Minister in the Croatian government formed by the right-wing Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) in May , he had been elected to the Presidency by the Croatian Assembly in August after it had recalled the communist Stipe Suvar . |
| 4 | When the United Kingdom had entered the EEC , it had asked the major parties to nominate representatives to the Parliament . |
| 5 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 6 | Much of it had assumed the two women were guilty . |
| 7 | Mixed , she said , because it had given the theatre the opportunity to invite P.L. O'Hara to step into the breach . |
| 8 | De Klerk said later that the visit was successful in that it had given the US side " the correct perspective " on developments in South Africa , and that the meeting with Bush had amounted to important progress towards " the final normalization of relations between South Africa and the USA " . |
| 9 | From the Communist viewpoint their campaign had been justified by the vote of 592,000 for affiliation and by the importance which it had given the Party in the eyes of militant Labour Party members . |
| 10 | One of the miners , Jim Hunter , said last night that it had given the men a tremendous boost . |
| 11 | The NRF had originated from a combination of Swedish Red-and-Whites crossed to Ayrshires ( imported since the 1860s ) , and by 1960 it had absorbed the graded-up Red Trondheim ( a horned breed from Ayrshires crossed to local cattle between 1850 and 1891 ) and the Hedmark , another local type of the Swedish Red-and-White . |
| 12 | It had absorbed the autonomist Right-On thinking and described itself not as a political party as such , but as ‘ The Revolutionary Socialist Organization ’ . |
| 13 | In what was seen as a crucial breakthrough for efforts to avert massive famine in the Horn of Africa [ see p. 37845 ] the World Food Programme announced on Dec. 18 that it had secured the definite agreement of the Ethiopian government and leaders of the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) guerillas to open the Red Sea port of Massawa , closed to shipping since its capture by the EPLF in February . |
| 14 | As the largest single party in the upper chamber , however , the LDP could have commanded an overall majority if it had secured the support of Komeito . |
| 15 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt that this course has heightened the management skills of some of those working in the voluntary sector , but an extra benefit is that it had widened the links between I B M and you , and widened the understanding between both of us . |
| 17 | It had made the fatal error of overkill . |
| 18 | It had made the national press . |
| 19 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
| 20 | It had made the day perfect when Gran paid for her and Adam to have a ride ; she could still remember the glorious whoosh to and fro , the sense of riding in the air like the wheeling gulls , the bitter disappointment when the woman in charge came to catch their swing boat and tell them their time was up . |
| 21 | It had made the Marchese a small fortune when he sold it to the deputy of the English connoisseur in Naples who was going to ship it away in boxes ; it was being stripped from the walls when the Government heard of it and came and sealed up the villa again , but not before one of the intermediaries had sliced enough off the top of the deal to pay his passage to America , promising to send after him for his family . |
| 22 | Neil Anderson , a partner in the firm , said it had made the cuts only with great reluctance and after great consideration . |
| 23 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 24 | Miraculously , the fall left him whole , with no injury internal or external , but ‘ it had shaken the beauty out of his movements . |
| 25 | Yet by then it had gained the distinction — shared only with Guynemer 's squadron of the Cigognes — of being entitled to wear the shoulder lanyard of a twice cited unit . |
| 26 | By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day . |
| 27 | After it had crossed the Torrente Taro the tram had a dead straight journey for the rest of the way , stopping at three more places and picking up just a few more passengers , none of whom were regulars . |
| 28 | It had crossed the border into Belgium before police could seal the town ; at a press conference there were denials that border security had been lax . |
| 29 | But Jay 's spine became electric as Pergolese 's Stabat Mater came through the speakers sure as it had filled the dusk of her dream . |
| 30 | In Maharashtra a group of Shiv Sena members of the legislative assembly , led by Chhagan Bhujpal , announced on Dec. 10 that it had formed the Shiv Sena ( B ) ; on Dec. 21 Bhujpal was appointed a Cabinet minister in the state government . |