Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We bought our 1920s terraced house two years ago because of the size and character it offered compared to new houses of a similar price . |
| 2 | More importantly , it put paid to public faith in the League . |
| 3 | But in the madrigal it had led to heightened tone-painting of individual words and phrases , a practice which Zarlino 's own pupil , the Florentine lutenist and singer Vincenzo Galilei ( c. 1520–1591 ) , father of the astronomer , ridiculed in his Dialogo della musica antica e della moderna ( Venice , 1581 ) . |
| 4 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 5 | By 1909 it had spread to domestic African pigs . |
| 6 | It had happened to other freelancers , she knew . |
| 7 | It remained confined to short trips , often quite strenuous by modern standards , bringing in its train a flourishing minor industry of ‘ souvenirs ’ . |