Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 3 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 4 | So it became a twice-yearly event by necessity , rather than design . |
| 5 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 6 | Elsewhere it proved a negative variable , even in areas with a sizeable Jewish presence such as Leeds or Manchester . |
| 7 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 8 | Now it felt a whole lot like being got rid of . |
| 9 | But now it included a growing number of raznochintsy , men of different ranks , the children of humbler officials , the clergy , the lower urban estates . |
| 10 | Overall it offered a strategic solution to many of London 's problems — though , as it was realized later , only if the world would stand still long enough for desirable change to be effected without being overtaken by other events . |
| 11 | Originally it had a flat plaster ceiling , but by the 1850s the bookcases on this lower level had become completely full , and in 1859 the roof of the building was raised and the barrel-vaulted ceiling and gallery bookcases which you now see were constructed . |
| 12 | Today it launched a new campaign . |
| 13 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
| 14 | Such places still exist but even when tackling them years ago it required a full team of professionals to make any worthwhile impression on the rabbits within . |
| 15 | Here it had a devastating effect on seagrass beds and mangrove swamps . |
| 16 | Anyway , when Alan suggested that he should set up in practice here it seemed a splendid idea . ’ |
| 17 | Frequently in trouble were ‘ foreigners ’ from East Looe who would cross the river to steal soil from the common ; presumably it had a good name for fertility . |
| 18 | Thence it described a great arc through Fenny Compton and Byfield to rejoin the other road at Cold Higham ( Crawford ) . |
| 19 | Sometimes it needed a special tool . |
| 20 | Sometimes it thematized a heightened irrationality , at others it slid into hyperrationality , while at still others it seems to escape the logic of these categories altogether . |
| 21 | Many women were interpellated by this religious and mystical imagery , because potentially it projected a spiritualized fusion of sex and love . |
| 22 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 23 | Then it became a residential nursery before the social services took it over five years ago . ’ |
| 24 | So before that it was a National Song , and then it became a National Anthem , eighteen fifty-two , before your time , I should think , eighteen fifty-two . |
| 25 | But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal . |
| 26 | Then it installed a common reporting system . |
| 27 | Seven minutes before the interval Duncan Ferguson smashed a header against the crossbar as the home side piled on the pressure , then it took a diving header from Grant Tierney to take a David Robertson cross off Mark Hateley 's toe . |
| 28 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 29 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 30 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |