Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] it [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors found it a lovely house , full of air and hospitality . |
| 2 | Nails thought it a good idea . |
| 3 | The Italians made it a central part of their defence arrangements because of its fine natural harbour , and erected barracks to house 20,000 soldiers . |
| 4 | He noted that its heavy brow-ridges gave it an ape-like appearance , but rejected it as a ‘ missing link ’ because of its large capacity . |
| 5 | When the Japanese base was established at Ermera during the early summer , its 20-mile supply route led through country familiar to the Australians , the road running south from Dili , and despite the Japanese posts guarding the convoys , Australian ambushes made it a hazardous supply run . |
| 6 | Patrick 's Hill was so long and steep that even pedestrians found it an excessive strain , and its footpaths had been layered with sets of steps at regular intervals to make the ascent tolerable . |
| 7 | The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year . |
| 8 | Unbeknown to all , though , Harry 's bird arrived in Lisbon in 1975 , where it 's Swiss owners gave it the wrong name a nom-de-plume if you like . |
| 9 | The post-war National Insurance arrangements made it an unattractive proposition for married women , typically low-waged , to opt for paying full National Insurance contributions when a much cheaper ‘ married woman 's option ’ was available . |
| 10 | At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air . |
| 11 | It was an admirable venture and most of the Girls found it an exciting place to stay . |
| 12 | Most respondents found it a useful medium for aiding some cosmetic task or other . |
| 13 | The professionals found it a tough test , with Wirral 's Andy Mitchell returning the only sub par round in the 36-hole event . |
| 14 | First , because of membership of the EMS , wage-bargainers and price-setters in other countries may take particular notice of the DM exchange rate and inflationary trends ( if any ) in the Federal Republic ; second , over a period of time , wage and price responses in other countries might evolve towards the German norm ; third , it may simply be that in a period when for fundamental social and political reasons the control of inflation came to assume dominance in policy-making , policy-makers found it a useful discipline to conduct their fiscal and monetary affairs in such a way as to stabilise the exchange rate against the DM . |
| 15 | The teachers said it the English way , |
| 16 | The shark 's prodigious hunting skills earned it a similar position among oceanic peoples . |
| 17 | When a car passed by the men gave it a cursory glance . |
| 18 | The church 's provinces , dioceses and parishes gave it an extensive infrastructure , its carefully-ranked personnel and tiers of assemblies a hierarchy of control into which the king could tap . |
| 19 | During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence . |
| 20 | The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional . |
| 21 | But the discovery that it depleted the brain of certain transmitters made it a valuable tool in investigating brain mechanisms . |
| 22 | The older women found it a terrible strain . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The nurses thought it a huge joke . ’ |
| 24 | To begin with , the Gnomes thought it a fine idea to be part of the traditional Fidchell and Bith of the Bog-Hat told how the Wolfkings had played it during the Winter Solstice with solid gold figures studded with ivory and pearl , which the Gnomes always had the supplying of . |
| 25 | It was always five o'clock of a winter evening there and all the tempting boxes gave it a night-before-Christmas look , a richly expectant atmosphere of surprise packages . |
| 26 | My colleagues thought it an impracticable plan and that it would put British manufacturers at a disadvantage — unless such measures could be introduced worldwide . |