Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 2 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 3 | Moreover , as with the rank-and-file townsmen , the State 's bureaucratic weakness led it to impose crippling burdens on the leading merchants . |
| 4 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 5 | Only the General Election stopped it going through . |
| 6 | EGG producers yesterday demanded the resignation of Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer as Agriculture Minister after his department admitted it did not pay farmers enough compensation for the slaughter of poultry flocks after the 1988 salmonella-in-eggs scare . |
| 7 | Except that her figure made it look good anyway . |
| 8 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 9 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 10 | Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute . |
| 11 | THE opponents of a major pylon scheme received a boost yesterday when a government department confirmed it intended to lodge a formal objection to the route . |
| 12 | DEC 's demonstration showed it running with 256Mb internal and 852Mb disk , and says it had it running with 4Gb external in the labs . |
| 13 | Yesterday the International Squash Players Association confirmed it had received the $15,000 ( £9,400 ) withheld after Jansher 's walkout from the World Open 's official dinner . |
| 14 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |
| 15 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 16 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 17 | As the pound slumped it fell below its ‘ effective ’ floor set by its relationship with the peseta but dealers say that the peseta constraint is no longer as important as it was once thought to be . |
| 18 | Water from a nearby spring kept it filled . |
| 19 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 20 | The defendant contended it accrued when the works were completed , in which event the action is statute-barred . |
| 21 | Shook newspaper off and the wind sent it whirling into the railings of the park . |
| 22 | What kind of circulation did it have ? |
| 23 | English department did it last term . |
| 24 | Only what good did it do to admit it ? |
| 25 | In contrast to these reductions in the rate of stroke , the effect on heart attacks was much less : only in the systolic hypertension in the elderly programme did it achieve significance . |
| 26 | So obsessed was he with Mary 's charm and the Casket Letters , that it did not occur to him to ask the much more prosaic but crucially important question : what effect did it have on her kingdom , in this age of religious and political upheaval and trauma , to be saddled with a ruler who shut herself off from reality whenever reality became difficult ? |
| 27 | 1 Why did all the children laugh at Julie on the first day she went to her new school ? 2 How do you think Julie felt that day ? 3 Did you feel sorry for her then ? 4 Did you feel sorry for her later in the story ? 5 When Julie was left tied to the lamp post was it fair , unfair , cruel … or what ? 6 Whose fault was it that Julie and Bee stopped seeing each other ? 7 Why did Julie get hurts and what effect did it have on Bee ? 8 What were your feelings at the end ? |
| 28 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 29 | What effect did it have on his private life ? |
| 30 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |