Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] it a [adj] [noun] " 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 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 .
5 The party 's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year .
6 At either end of the village two long avenues of trees gave it a friendly air .
7 Most respondents found it a useful medium for aiding some cosmetic task or other .
8 The professionals found it a tough test , with Wirral 's Andy Mitchell returning the only sub par round in the 36-hole event .
9 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 .
10 The shark 's prodigious hunting skills earned it a similar position among oceanic peoples .
11 When police found it a few minutes later they looked inside expecting to find the baby but the back seat was empty .
12 When a car passed by the men gave it a cursory glance .
13 During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence .
14 The roomy silos of the hull flanks gave it a bulbous appearance that defied approval by any aesthetic but the purely functional .
15 But the discovery that it depleted the brain of certain transmitters made it a valuable tool in investigating brain mechanisms .
16 The older women found it a terrible strain .
17 A man with dark hair and thick eyebrows opened it a few inches .
18 He said : ‘ The nurses thought it a huge joke . ’
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Below it flows the Dorn , known to the Saxons as the Milk , from the cloudiness of its water after rain : and one still sees it as the Saxons saw it a thousand years ago , as I saw it a few minutes ago in the thin rain drifting down from the Cotswolds .
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