Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got dark pretty soon after , but I did n't bother to move . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Gradually it became dark outside . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although the increase was understandable given the Government 's vacillation , it made ministers even less willing to intervene . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It made Charity even more uneasy about Mandy unabashedly training the binoculars on him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | By women being open about sex , it made life much easier for men . |
| 13 | It made life very easy for us . |
| 14 | It made Nour very angry . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
| 17 | Critics of this process of commercialization often pointed to the way that it made journalists less concerned with ‘ the old style of principled journalism ’ . |
| 18 | While the results worked , it made replacements almost impossible . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It changed shape again . |
| 21 | It changed things dramatically . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It changed hands again several times but its subsequent history is of no consequence to this narrative . |
| 24 | It changed hands recently and is now run by Stephen and Janet Errington . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It caught fire immediately . |
| 27 | He kept on firing until he could see each individual rope on the net , then hauled the nose up and vaulted the balloon , realizing as he did so that if it caught fire now he would be fried . |
| 28 | Aunt Tossie knew she had embarrassed him , but it drew attention away from Nicandra . |
| 29 | It used pictures well , with great reproduction and everybody started to take notice . |
| 30 | The sun had moved behind the rooftops and it cast shadows halfway up the little houses on the opposite side of the turning . |