Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surgeons tried in vain to sew it back on . |
| 2 | The Sex Discrimination Act 1986 made it unlawful for an employer to discriminate between men and women as regards retirement age . |
| 3 | Secondly , until 1926 , at law ( as opposed to equity ) no limited interests in chattels personal could be created — the notion of estates had no application to chattels personal till the Law of Property Act 1925 made it possible to create an entailed interest in them . |
| 4 | ‘ That made it worse , you see . |
| 5 | The financial system was given more freedom than before , but that made it an even more ruthless broadcaster of economic frailties . |
| 6 | I tried to move away from him but that made it worse . |
| 7 | That made it a perfect victim for the advance loans ' fraud . |
| 8 | That made it almost unbearable . |
| 9 | But that made it no less a dire experience for those who found their world gradually being pressurized , slowly becoming conditioned by a series of events beginning with the familiar friendly knock on the door — as dramatized in Thames Television 's play Not Waving But Drowning , produced and directed by Polly Bide , based on a real-life case history . |
| 10 | That made it worse , somehow . ’ |
| 11 | That made it difficult to work out the company 's exposure to open contracts at any given time and this , in turn , allowed Mr Koval to indulge in ‘ extensive trading outside any limit contemplated by the plaintiff 's board ’ . |
| 12 | That made it 10 for Robins this season , and all in front of his policeman dad , Chief Inspector Gordon , who was in charge of crowd control at the ground . |
| 13 | That made it better but not really good enough . |
| 14 | That made it 68 for 4 as the rain returned and 14 minutes nett went missing around the tea interval . |
| 15 | Anyway , there I was , going up this endless corridor , thinking what to do about the mother , who blamed herself — wi' reason mind you , she was one of those soft suckering witch-women , but that made it worse , not better — and there was th' trolley wi' the dead girl on it , sliding by me — sheet right over , porters in those soft theatre boots and floppy plastic bathcaps — and when they 'd got past me and were turning i n't door , the first one looked at me from under his plastic frills like , with my own face . |
| 16 | Even in her weakened state , she knew that her desperate need was irrational , but that made it no less important . |
| 17 | It was crowded inside , but that made it warmer . |
| 18 | That made it a crime within the family . |
| 19 | That made it worse . ’ |
| 20 | McCallan said : ‘ I may not have been in the game a lot until I got my goal , but that made it up for it . ’ |
| 21 | That made it all scarier . |
| 22 | That made it essential to continue making contact with France via regular radio broadcasts and to forge links with French communities abroad . |
| 23 | That made it even worse . |
| 24 | Turning to the mirror , she saw herself in the long white silk dress , clinging to her slender body , curving off the shoulders , accentuating her fine collarbones , tight at the waist then flaring out with clouds of taffeta below that made it seem as if she floated rather than walked . |
| 25 | That made it 38 for 3 . |
| 26 | That made it 24-0 and the game effectively over and yet there were as many points to come . |
| 27 | In fact , together with several colleagues , I was endeavouring to set up an informal meeting with ministers to try and discuss this matter er when the haemophiliac 's representative decided to go to law for their own good reasons , because that made it more difficult for any negotiations to take place . |
| 28 | Does that answer it for you or not ? |
| 29 | Yes , fifty given it exactly the same way . |
| 30 | But for a stranger to see it . |