Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It was also found to give excessive flange wear , and made it necessary to turn the wheels after 20,000 miles in service .
2 Stalin 's death and the first limited signs of de/tente and disengagement in Europe ( notably the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 ) heightened the importance of national sensibilities in Eastern Europe and made it advantageous to erect a multilateral fig leaf of collective security over the USSR 's continued domination of her neighbours .
3 It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength .
4 Robert had never been a healthy man and found it difficult to earn a living .
5 She was always sceptical about international news and found it difficult to trust the reports .
6 She also had severe perceptual problems and found it hard to recognize the different parts of her body or to know where objects were in relation to herself .
7 Mr Walden says he 's received numerous letters since the Iraqi invasion two months ago , and felt it important to take the opportunity to talk with the people he represents .
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