Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although it felt numb , the leg was still bearing his weight , so he hobbled quickly over to the door leading to the basement , jerked it open and dived through . |
| 2 | I ran over to my cupboard door and jerked it open . |
| 3 | Having inspected the club-house Bunny pronounced it unsafe . |
| 4 | Taking his cue from her , Thiercelin pronounced it German-style , with three syllables . |
| 5 | What a funny name , she thought , and the young lady pronounced it funny , too . |
| 6 | When we had driven off the land , Signe and Harvey had studied the shrinkage and cracking of the ice at the water 's edge and pronounced it safe . |
| 7 | Practical PC has already reviewed it , and pronounced it excellent , looking forward to Windows NT , which will be the OS that is a GUI ( do n't worry , all will be explained . ) |
| 8 | ( He pronounced it Nahtan , which Nora did not at once recognize . ) |
| 9 | Yeremi snatched it clear of the firing handle . |
| 10 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
| 11 | Ironically , given the severe limitations of freedom of speech planned in the future fascist state , Mosley deemed it necessary to protect that liberty by providing more rigorous stewarding of public meetings to prevent them being broken up by left-wing activists . |
| 12 | It was not until November 1959 that Moscow deemed it necessary even to send a TASS correspondent to Havana . |
| 13 | His paper was certainly outspoken : and , as his Church Times obituary remarked , ‘ our friend was no respecter of persons , however high in official standing , if he deemed it necessary , in support of God 's truth or the Church 's laws , to condemn their conduct . ’ |
| 14 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 15 | ‘ Since your family has fled the palace , ’ Richard of Gloucester continued evenly , ‘ I deemed it wise to install Your Grace elsewhere . |
| 16 | He deemed it unwise to push the matter while she was clearly still in a state of emotional shock . |
| 17 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 18 | Stopped it dead . |
| 19 | It stopped it dead |
| 20 | it stopped it dead in its track , yeah , could n't get to rewire it after it though it snapped it a little bit . |
| 21 | He slit it open with his finger , and glanced at it . |
| 22 | He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes . |
| 23 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 24 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 25 | Most horsemen in Suffolk did not powder the bone but used it whole and also as a device to jade and not to draw the horse . |
| 26 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 27 | They had inherited a large number of hire schemes , and sometimes ( particularly for cookers in working class areas ) found it economic to continue these . |
| 28 | I found it intriguing that the image on the screen was almost indecipherable , especially when blown up to five and a half metres square . |
| 29 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
| 30 | Con seemed oblivious of it but in the enclosed space I found it overpowering . |