Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergeant Allen always liked to be ready early , to have everything buttoned up before the Troop Commander arrived : it got things off to a good start . |
| 2 | It got dark pretty soon after , but I did n't bother to move . |
| 3 | The farmer sent him to keep a flock of larks off a field that had just been set with winter corn : ‘ It was late November or early December ; and when it got dark about half past four time I made my way back to the farm thinking my job was done . |
| 4 | He used to give me an hours warning and then we 'd work through until it got dark out in the fields and then we 'd go into the sheds and restack the hay or whatever he wanted to do . |
| 5 | This achieved little , as it asked countries only to try ‘ so far as possible ’ to limit and ‘ gradually reduce and prevent air pollution using the ‘ best available technology which is economically feasible ’ . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the 11 + began to be criticized not only because it divided children up absurdly young into different categories , within which they were more or less trapped , but also because it was intrinsically inequitable . |
| 7 | Gradually it became dark outside . |
| 8 | It became Lescar only in the eleventh century , after having been devastated , like other sites in these desirable and prosperous pre-Pyrenean regions , first by the Moors and then by the Vikings . |
| 9 | It led Marguerite on to the art of cooking , and Jenna was content to sit and listen to the soothing sound of her voice . |
| 10 | Aged 28 , Lesley claims not to be a natural competitor and in fact as a teenager dropped out of a PE teacher training course as she felt it made sport too serious and took the fun away . |
| 11 | It made Times just look super elegant , you know , and yah I , that 's what 's wrong with all the foundries now , they forgot where they came from . |
| 12 | Although the increase was understandable given the Government 's vacillation , it made ministers even less willing to intervene . |
| 13 | Of course it made Carvin virtually unobtainable in this country , but now ABC Music have stepped into the breach to provide a UK retail outlet . |
| 14 | It made Charity even more uneasy about Mandy unabashedly training the binoculars on him . |
| 15 | This fitted in neatly with Spencer 's philosophy of self-help as the driving force of evolution , and Lankester drew the obvious implication from his theory by warning that the human race might degenerate if it made life too easy for itself . |
| 16 | By women being open about sex , it made life much easier for men . |
| 17 | It made life very easy for us . |
| 18 | It made Nour very angry . |
| 19 | This did n't matter so much for physiological or anatomical studies , where one could only work with small numbers of animals anyhow ; but for biochemistry , when larger numbers were needed , it made progress very slow . |
| 20 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
| 21 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 22 | While the results worked , it made replacements almost impossible . |
| 23 | It made Hari so angry to see the little ones neglected but there was very little anyone could do , poverty was a fact of life in places like World 's End . |
| 24 | It changed shape again . |
| 25 | It changed things dramatically . |
| 26 | It changed policy again after leading members of the Save the Narmada Movement had threatened to drown themselves in the rising waters of the Narmada river . |
| 27 | It changed hands again several times but its subsequent history is of no consequence to this narrative . |
| 28 | It changed hands recently and is now run by Stephen and Janet Errington . |
| 29 | The second run was too defensive and it let Tomba in . |
| 30 | Even in Queen 's County , in the Great Heath of Maryborough , still technically in Leinster , they saw appalling signs of starvation — though it moved John far more than it seemed to move MacMinimum . |