Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 2 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 3 | He would analyse the paper sample , photograph and enlarge each individual letter and then mount them on a comparison chart , and the jury would pass it solemnly from hand to hand and wonder wily it needed a highly-paid expert to come and explain what anyone could see with his own eyes . |
| 4 | Horrible and impossible it enfolded the two women in its slimy obsceneness . |
| 5 | Work-wise it followed a similar pattern to the previous day . |
| 6 | Close by reared the immense domed bulk of the Palais de Justice , a complex so large it covered a greater area than St Peter 's in Rome . |
| 7 | Now , in his early thirties , he was surrounded by an aura of such vital confidence that she was sure it attracted a positive response from anyone within his orbit . |
| 8 | The Ministry , though in general it had a weak set of personnel by Whitehall standards , was imbued with the common cultural attitudes of the mandarinate . |
| 9 | Yes that that 's right it had a special name . |
| 10 | 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 . |