Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It concerned him the more to see that Titch , also , appeared to have no eyes for anything but the Wheel . |
| 2 | It produced what the French defence minister , Charles Hernu , described to the French parliament as a ‘ new radioactive situation . ’ |
| 3 | The people who created it made themselves the masters of the Greek-speaking world within two centuries . |
| 4 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 5 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 6 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 7 | But then , on 12 October , It found itself the target of a takeover . |
| 8 | United put profits before results last season and it cost them the Championship . |
| 9 | It cost him the tournament . |
| 10 | It cost him the land he had so longed to enter . |
| 11 | Imagine if your local electrical store allowed you to take a TV home for a month to sample its quality before parting with your money , you would be sure you had made the right decision before it cost you the earth . |
| 12 | Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’ |
| 13 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 14 | Cos it helped me the last time . |
| 15 | It told me the figures in east London . |
| 16 | Well it seemed it the bairn 's been in . |
| 17 | The loss should not fall on the totally innocent taxpayer whose only fault is that it paid what the legislature improperly said was due . |
| 18 | The 499-member Congress held its constituent session on March 11-12 , when it declared itself the constitutional representative of the Estonian people and passed resolutions calling for restoration of Estonia 's independent statehood and the withdrawal of Soviet troops stationed in the republic . |
| 19 | In particular it showed me the many opportunities we have , and that we are a talented organisation . |
| 20 | It showed what the weather was and how they had started taking daily sunshine for granted that he had n't got any sort of jacket or sweater with him even though he expected to be away overnight . |
| 21 | It taught me the lesson that you should never do something because you feel you 've got to . |
| 22 | It called itself the European Parliamentary Assembly and symbolically arranged the seating of delegates by political affiliation rather than by nationality . |
| 23 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 24 | Implicitly , the Government was saying that it knew what the problems were , and how they could be tackled . |
| 25 | In effect , what The Times was saying was that it knew what the ‘ real ’ stories were and that only dictators prevented such stories from being told . |
| 26 | Now it offered her the chance to get away from him for ever … |
| 27 | It offered him the see of Durham . |
| 28 | It took me the rest of the day to clean up . |
| 29 | Someone of my acquaintance once broke her ankle by falling over in the bathroom and while she could have dragged herself quite easily along the floor to a telephone in the bedroom if she had had one , as it was it took her the best part of an agonising hour to struggle down the stairs to the phone in the living room . |
| 30 | Once installed , back in 1976 , they began the long and laborious process of renovating it themselves , without any professional help , which partly explains why it took them the best part of 10 years . |