Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there was any post-coital tristesse about Mighty Mo Magill his lifetime in covert operations hit it well . |
| 2 | She pulled off a fluffy piece and with sticky fingers offered it to Uncle Albert . |
| 3 | But those eight survivors saw it differently — and lived to show that it can be conquered — with the right blend of indestructibility between man and machine . |
| 4 | The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking . |
| 5 | Indeed , Ford 's own potted history of Dagenham records that ‘ some experts said it was unworkable ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Some clubs found it difficult , though , and I do n't think you get results which are ‘ correct ’ in those situations . ’ |
| 7 | At the start of World War II Billing produced a design for a pilotless flying bomb ; the British authorities turned it down . |
| 8 | Fair comment , but this week she was on holiday , did n't stop her and going and leaving them poor dogs in there barking their heads off and crying , for seven and a half hours did it ? |
| 9 | As for the LPO , no-one was quite clear ; some researchers thought it was primarily an ‘ output ’ region , coordinating motor responses such as pecking ; others saw it as more to do with the bird 's emotional responses , which would certainly include fear and distaste . |
| 10 | Some deputies accused it of giving away too many powers to the regions . |
| 11 | The appointment of Valuev was not quite the retrograde step that some contemporaries thought it to be . |
| 12 | As will be seen in the next chapter , when the republican wing under de Valera took over as the Fianna Fáil party in the 1930s , constitutional law was restructured , according to both a reformed republican ideology and current Roman social teaching , and in those areas where the high clergy thought it necessary . |
| 13 | But some traders felt it was all too little too late . |
| 14 | ‘ Different styles made it thoroughly entertaining and nobody was complaining apart from me ! |
| 15 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 16 | There was quite a few schools used it . |
| 17 | Indeed , only one unpublished study has referred to the activities of this group and the concern with which the Board of Deputies of British Jews viewed it . |
| 18 | Top designers said it with flowers this spring : a floral jungle by Bill Blass ( above ) ; black and floral trousers by Krizia ( above left ) ; a splash of colour from Chanel ( far left ) and Ungaro 's tropical sarong-style fantasy ( left ) . |
| 19 | It cleaned up the European Car of the Year award for 1992 against some formidable competition , though only two out of the seven British judges gave it top ranking . |
| 20 | Few communities adopted it in toto , but it provided a useful source of material , even if those responsible for it fell into the common trap of producing texts which were not necessarily Appropriate for musical setting . |
| 21 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 22 | Only 20% of a similar sample of non-executive directors thought it might be . |
| 23 | But some companies made it clear yesterday that if possible they wanted to remain in the City . |
| 24 | But the ritual was nevertheless a way of protecting the devotional intimacy , whereas the non-liturgical denominations exposed it in a way he would have found offensive . |
| 25 | In practice , of course , we would not do so unless we thought the commercial circumstances warranted it . |
| 26 | The Cabinet reshuffle reflected little significant change in the policies of Roh Tae Woo , although some observers considered it indicative of his desire to make greater efforts to sustain and develop the recent dialogue with North Korea . |
| 27 | Memories of long waits in countless English corridors made it familiar . |
| 28 | A few stragglers kept it up for a few seconds , then there was nothing . |
| 29 | The German planes reached it seconds before the SEs . |
| 30 | Yet it is remarkable , on the other hand , how morally unmoved the British hierarchy in India seems to have been at the time by civil disobedience : if British officials found it morally painful to see Indians breaking the law and suffering for it , by and large they succeeded in keeping the fact to themselves . |