Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] ['s] [noun] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes ' walk it seemed she had truly left the hamlet of Pook 's Common behind . |
| 2 | In the 1991 Chairman 's report it made clear the fact that the Buckfastleigh Branch having been leased in 1991 to the South Devon Railway Trust , showed only the fare income for the Paignton branch , hence a fall in turnover from the 1990 season , which included the fare income from the Buckfastleigh branch . |
| 3 | ‘ Apparently , ’ Conolly continues , ‘ Champagne is to be restored to the position of the rich man 's drink it enjoyed before those wretched own-label chappies started making it available to all ! ’ |
| 4 | The following morning he told me what a wonderful night 's sleep it had given him and was fulsome in his praise of what he called his ‘ beautiful lady ’ . |
| 5 | If hunting had once been in the red bitch 's blood it had long since been bred out and forgotten . |
| 6 | To face herself in a mirror without flinching : neat mid-brown hair that grew in orderly waves , a little longer than her father would have liked , almost to her shoulders , but not the shaggy bird 's nest it had been on Mars . |
| 7 | When they had gone to bed together on New Year 's Eve it had been like a revelation to him . |