Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It helped make the government conscious of some of the preoccupations of nobility and townsmen , but when its proceedings were interrupted by the Turkish War , Catherine allowed the experiment to lapse . |
| 2 | It helped make the artist 's name and was bought in 1912 by the poet Hugo von Hoffmannsthal with the money he made from writing the libretto to Richard Strauss 's Der Rosenkavalier . |
| 3 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 4 | This was no more than a gesture but it helped sustain the morale of the Belgians . |
| 5 | But it did involve the acceptance of a spiritual authority beyond his control , to which his ancestor Arnoul I could never have bowed . |
| 6 | But it did blunt the tool quite easily and sharpening was needed more often that I had thought likely , though this walnut was extremely hard . |
| 7 | Although the strike was called off , amid bitter controversy , it did benefit the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Whilst the second approach provides a more rigorous and adaptable method of providing the assemblies , it did necessitate the building of special-purpose assembly and iterative routines into the geometric modeller of a CAD system . |
| 9 | Even the original Tele guitar was designed to have some bass-playing ability , and as a consequence was not wired as it is today , although it did possess the customary three-way selector switch . |
| 10 | Nonconformity did not will migration into the towns nor the migration out again to the suburbs but it did meet the challenges presented by these mammoth social changes . |
| 11 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 12 | It did n't shed much light , but it did give the darkness a shape … |
| 13 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 14 | It did improve the image and it it improved people 's confidence I think in themselves and in the area . |
| 15 | However , it did retain the S E Saunders patented ‘ corrugated ’ hull method of construction , as used on the Severn , in which longitudinal corrugations replaced riveted stringers . |
| 16 | It did exclude the unplanned , ( and sometimes unintended ! ) learning and reinforcement that takes place ‘ on-the-job ’ . |
| 17 | If I could manage to absorb a tablet in between the bouts of vomiting it did stop the sickness and bring a pain-free sleep — but it left me too exhausted to do anything about enjoying life . |
| 18 | Well I would say Not being a riveter I would think it it did make the job a bit easier for them . |
| 19 | By the time it did satisfy the relevant purpose test ( by having acquired the business ) it had ceased to be close by virtue of the institutions ' investment . |
| 20 | " My kingdom is not of this world " was not regarded as releasing the pope from an active role in government , though it did express the great moral fervour that fuelled the late eleventh- and early twelfth-century reforms — especially in the attack on clerical marriage and in the drive to rid the Church of unchaste priests and to control the proprietary church system ( secular theocracy ) . |
| 21 | Its advantage was that it worked , in that it gave some hope of understanding why chemical compounds behave as they do ; and it did open the way to symbolizing chemical reactions . |
| 22 | Milton Friedman 's widely reported remark that ‘ We are all Keynesians now ’ was an exaggeration , even for the time , but it did convey the Zeitgeist of the 1960s . |
| 23 | The third , in an article on " Obsolescent languages " ( N.C. Dorian ) , did not , although it did refer the reader to the main entry on " Bilingualism " ( K. Hakuta ) . |
| 24 | But it did highlight the trade unions barons ' basic disregard for democracy . |
| 25 | However , it did mark the first major overhaul of the Treaties of Rome , it reformed EC institutions to some extent and it succeeded in keeping the members united . |
| 26 | And it was a great tragedy cos er it did i i it did cause the general strike and er we had a week of the general strike . |
| 27 | I know Fran Cotton has a business to run but it did spoil the World Cup celebrations for many . |
| 28 | It did keep the Albion brewery open for another 20 years , but brewing finally stopped in Mild End in 1978 . |
| 29 | But it did enter the hearts of some . |
| 30 | The FDA did not ban the drug , but it did find the 0.5 mg dose excessive and had safety concerns about 0.25 mg . |