Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , whatever , it got pretty popular for a bit before everyone got bored with it and went back to staring out of the window and hiding Brian Smart ( and his accessories ) in the stock cupboard . |
| 2 | ‘ But , as you can imagine , it got pretty sick in some places because we were being so exact . |
| 3 | Oh yes and and then it got too big for them they are no longer able to control it they 're not big enough for a big power two very big big brothers but they could n't run a company the size they built it . |
| 4 | It got quite bad after a while and I had to hold hot towels underneath him to get the blood moving . |
| 5 | Larry and the other pocket knife owner became the prime suspects and it got quite ugly with such suggestions as , ‘ why do n't you admit it , you know you did it ’ . |
| 6 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 7 | He began by saying that people were starving to death , and it got more pessimistic from then on : the resettlement camps , the ensuing dislocation which meant people could no longer grow their food , the dying children . |
| 8 | THE ITED approach to training comes of age this year as it goes fully operational after two years of pilot schemes . |
| 9 | In use always choose a wide chisel making sure that it sits truly flat on the face of the template . |
| 10 | This first-hand testimony , delivered with appropriate scholarly documentation , helped restore to the so called ‘ primitive ’ his full humanity and dignity ; it became intellectually inadmissible for tribesmen to be regarded as museum specimens who would remain for ever wayward children of nature and wards of paternalistic colonialism . |
| 11 | It became urgently necessary on Christmas Eve afternoon to get a comforting present sent from London to a sad lady in Wordsley near Wolverhampton . |
| 12 | Skip brought a few friends on the boat when he found the Soviets were not skilled ocean racers ( it became most apparent in Alexei 's case ) . |
| 13 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 14 | It became increasingly influential during the 1970s , due partly to the decline of functionalism , partly to its promise to provide answers which functionalism failed to provide and partly because it was more in keeping with the tenor and mood of the times . |
| 15 | As the dust created by the collapse of the monarchy cleared , however , it became increasingly apparent to those eager for change how tenacious and resourceful in defending their positions the established ruling classes of Spain were . |
| 16 | With the continued rise of secular attitudes , it became increasingly apparent to the Church — or certain sections of it — that it was , or was in danger of , becoming ever more marginal or peripheral to contemporary social concerns . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , a number of mathematically capable natural philosophers were to be attracted to the Copernican system , and their efforts to defend it became increasingly successful over the next hundred years or so . |
| 18 | Through theoretical inquiries into how cultural constructions are made , it became increasingly obvious to those working across a number of disciplines that historical events were no longer simply things that happened . |
| 19 | However , it became increasingly obvious during the next two years that the Ryder Report had been over optimistic about the market share of Leyland , and that even large injections of capital were insufficient to overcome the problems of poor labour relations , low productivity and entrenched attitudes . |
| 20 | But in an age of railways and steam-power it became increasingly difficult for her to compete . |
| 21 | It became increasingly difficult for assistance from outside to reach the nationalists , and their united front with the communists was no more than skin deep , but even so the Japanese could not extract a surrender . |
| 22 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In the second half it became increasingly difficult for them and we simply capitalised on our chances . ’ |
| 24 | Although no government willingly tangled with the BMA , it became increasingly clear to the Thatcher government that the financial costs of avoiding a confrontation with the profession might outweigh any political costs . |
| 25 | It became increasingly clear in the next two years that the change in leaders and policy had served only to weaken the Party still further . |
| 26 | From Edward I 's reign onwards , however , it became increasingly common for the crown to use contract armies on campaigns where the king and the household were not present and to defend castles and towns in enemy territory . |
| 27 | Major financiers and industrialists , notably those in St Petersburg , were made acutely conscious of their dependence on ministerial goodwill and it became increasingly common for senior officials to take up directorships on the boards of leading companies . |
| 28 | But the need for a military commander certainly did not diminish during Edward 's reign — it became increasingly common for a king-duke 's lieutenant to be appointed to lead the military forces of the duchy , as well as a seneschal with largely judicial functions . |
| 29 | It became logically possible for bureaucratic structures to perform all four input and all three output functions . |
| 30 | It became terribly hard in the winter . |