Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | As you flung yourself on the bed , with legs spread wide apart , you cupped your rosebush with your hands and stroked it some more , murmuring all the while in that hoarse , cracked voice of yours that it was good , beautiful , a little treasure . |
| 32 | Moving right up to date , Andres Gomez scored a popular point for Ecuador in 1990 , while the two most recent Grand Slam debutants were Monica Seles , who first won the French title in the same year and who retained it last year , and the current men 's title holder , the American Jim Courier . |
| 33 | ‘ Built it all out of nothing . |
| 34 | 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 |
| 35 | 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 |
| 36 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 37 | He bore it all very well , she thought , but by then she was past caring how he was taking it . |
| 38 | I mentioned it this morning . |
| 39 | I 've seen it , heard it , felt it , tasted it all before . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | It was not until November 1959 that Moscow deemed it necessary even to send a TASS correspondent to Havana . |
| 42 | 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 . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ Since your family has fled the palace , ’ Richard of Gloucester continued evenly , ‘ I deemed it wise to install Your Grace elsewhere . |
| 45 | He deemed it unwise to push the matter while she was clearly still in a state of emotional shock . |
| 46 | 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 ’ . |
| 47 | ‘ His voice just triggered it all off , I knew it was the beginning of something ’ said Heather , of Aberdeen Road , Darlington . |
| 48 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 49 | Nothing could have sounded more incongruous than the shot which stopped it all . |
| 50 | The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid . |
| 51 | Stopped it dead . |
| 52 | It stopped it dead |
| 53 | it stopped it dead in its track , yeah , could n't get to rewire it after it though it snapped it a little bit . |
| 54 | He slit it open with his finger , and glanced at it . |
| 55 | I chopped up the chicken itself and I put it and what I could rescue of the rice and a bit more rice which was in the cupboard into a frying pan with a stock cube and some water and I sort of poached it all together . ’ |
| 56 | I weighed it all up and made my decision . ’ |
| 57 | He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes . |
| 58 | She twisted away from him and backed over to the door , and then cracked it open , and peered out into the hall . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | The allied word ‘ antibiotic , reached the English language when the botanist Marshall Hall used it 10 years later . |