Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 3 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 4 | So it became a twice-yearly event by necessity , rather than design . |
| 5 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 6 | Elsewhere it proved a negative variable , even in areas with a sizeable Jewish presence such as Leeds or Manchester . |
| 7 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 8 | In the late nineteenth century his family helped to found this small town in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and by the time that Stanley Pons was growing up it had a thriving textile industry , his father owning several mills and employing over 1000 workers . |
| 9 | Now it felt a whole lot like being got rid of . |
| 10 | But now it included a growing number of raznochintsy , men of different ranks , the children of humbler officials , the clergy , the lower urban estates . |
| 11 | Overall it offered a strategic solution to many of London 's problems — though , as it was realized later , only if the world would stand still long enough for desirable change to be effected without being overtaken by other events . |
| 12 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
| 13 | Today it launched a new campaign . |
| 14 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
| 15 | Such places still exist but even when tackling them years ago it required a full team of professionals to make any worthwhile impression on the rabbits within . |
| 16 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
| 17 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
| 18 | Frequently in trouble were ‘ foreigners ’ from East Looe who would cross the river to steal soil from the common ; presumably it had a good name for fertility . |
| 19 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
| 20 | Sometimes it needed a special tool . |
| 21 | Sometimes it thematized a heightened irrationality , at others it slid into hyperrationality , while at still others it seems to escape the logic of these categories altogether . |
| 22 | Many women were interpellated by this religious and mystical imagery , because potentially it projected a spiritualized fusion of sex and love . |
| 23 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 24 | Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’ |
| 25 | So before that it was a National Song , and then it became a National Anthem , eighteen fifty-two , before your time , I should think , eighteen fifty-two . |
| 26 | But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal . |
| 27 | Then it installed a common reporting system . |
| 28 | Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe . |
| 29 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 30 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |