Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auction house had expected £3 million from the sale — it got £10 million . |
| 2 | The single did its job — it got East 17 on the cover of Smash Hits and into the teenypop consciousness . |
| 3 | As it got dark 1 decided not to fish for the carp at night . |
| 4 | Then through the decade of price hikes , it registered $17.5 billion in 1974 , $21.6 billion in 1977 , but relaxed to $20.9 billion in 1978 and $20.8 billion in 1979 , crumbling to $11.6 billion in 1980 . |
| 5 | When our time there coincided , it avoided friction such as the weekend when Nigel returned and described to me the site where some new tunnelling had started . |
| 6 | It became self evident when it was time to stop as the depth of cut ran out , though this was not a problem as I wanted the effect of closely surrounding foliage . |
| 7 | Though details of Short 's contract are secret , it sold Argentina 60 Blowpipes as well as Tigercat surface-to-air missiles . |
| 8 | Using the 550C driver , however , it produced results indistinguishable from the 550C itself |
| 9 | It made racism respectable and clinical by institutionalising it . |
| 10 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 11 | It made Ianthe uncomfortable to think of so many people living alone . |
| 12 | It made Beesley one of the best-known survivors of the disaster , and for fifty years — right up to the time I met him — he was regularly consulted by maritime historians , film researchers , journalists , souvenir hunters , bores , conspiracy theorists and vexatious litigants . |
| 13 | There was only one way into life , one way through , and one way out , and it made Lydia mad . |
| 14 | It made Edouard alive with happiness . |
| 15 | If it made Joan happy , fine . |
| 16 | If anything , it made matters worse . |
| 17 | It made things worse for Charles that he was responsible for his men 's transfer with him to this wilderness . |
| 18 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 19 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 20 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 21 | Those eyes looked so blue when he was angry like this , and in a way , after last night , it made things easier that he had come now , when there was Faye 's latest problem to think of . |
| 22 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 23 | But it made things difficult for me , at times . |
| 24 | Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 . |
| 25 | It made Ali susceptible when Rowbotham exploded at the idea of pin-ups . |
| 26 | He regretted the Ryans ' intractability because he felt it made Eileen unhappy . |
| 27 | It made Bernice jealous , but she would never let that dictate her behaviour . |
| 28 | It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time . |
| 29 | Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment . |
| 30 | Something in the way he said it made Coffin sure he was right . |