Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more arguable is how new it was , and how very much it departed from the old . |
| 2 | Perhaps it started about the mid-fifth century . |
| 3 | So it went to the National Gallery . |
| 4 | And so it continued over the next two years ; more and more presents , each one more costly than the last . |
| 5 | It was not fun enough for the fans , nor artistic enough for the art loving public ( or so it seemed from the vulgar poster and catalogue ; actually , it contained some wonderful and rarely seen pieces of silver ) . |
| 6 | So it appeared at the public hearings . |
| 7 | Now it seemed like the only thing that would make Christmas tolerable . |
| 8 | Joey does n't compete in the short circuit section of the championship in which King has excelled but he has generally been in command between the hedges and today it looked like the same old story when he took the lead after the first lap . |
| 9 | Next to the eastern granary the aqueduct , which no doubt had served the successive forts , was provided with a new channel and distribution tanks ; the source of water is unknown but presumably it lay on the higher ground to the north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 10 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 11 | Its major weakness was not of its own making ; rather it lay in the narrow geographical confines to which it was addressed : the Administrative County of London , whereas territorially what was in fact London spread far wider than that . |
| 12 | That love of haggling is still there in the Mediterranean economy , and maybe it began with the Minoan traders . |
| 13 | Then it returned to the original wagon and backed up against it again . |
| 14 | Then it cannoned into the other car , flipped over on its roof — and careered back into the motorway . |
| 15 | From there it spread through the abandoned shafts and tunnels , feeding on oxygen in the shafts . |
| 16 | A decade earlier the process might have been dubbed distanciation , instead it passed with the merest ribbing and rueful acknowledgement of the new plumage . |