Example sentences of "[adj] and it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association .
2 Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ .
3 He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance .
4 Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control .
5 At first they were quite crude and it took little skill and expertise to forge the signature , and then fraudulently put them to financial advantage .
6 It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter .
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