Example sentences of "[adj] it [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horrible and impossible it enfolded the two women in its slimy obsceneness . |
| 2 | Sometimes the 1949 recording is a trifle overwhelmed , but by and large it absorbs the heavy demands with reasonable fidelity . |
| 3 | Parliament , too , has to keep its working methods under review to make sure it attracts the best people to the service of their country and uses their talents to best effect . |
| 4 | In particular it attacks the T-helper cells where it lives and hides . |
| 5 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 6 | If it is excitatory , it makes the postsynaptic cell more likely to fire whereas if the signal is inhibitory it makes the postsynaptic cell less likely to fire . |