Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [noun] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hardly missed a game in eight years , and , to be honest , on one or two occasions it got boring . |
| 2 | This self-obsession , the looking inwards and away from the real world , represents a full circle turned in approximately twenty years , and this time it has official sanction and encouragement . |
| 3 | In fairness , too , one has to admit that Marxism is not monolithic , and that in literary and cultural criticism it provides many possible positions . |
| 4 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 5 | Apart from needing varnish and loving care it looked seaworthy , but naturally there were no rowlocks and no oars . |
| 6 | In the centuries that followed such shadings were shown to be transitory , and from these and other observations it became clear that Venus is completely and continuously covered in clouds . |
| 7 | Is this why , we ask ourselves , the Local Education Authority , out of one hundred and thirty teachers it promised extra to employ during this current financial year , there are only sixty three visible new teachers , and sixty seven of them are alas imaginary ? |
| 8 | With regard to the second and third limbs it seems clear that the statute requires not only the exclusion ( or virtual exclusion ) of the donor from the enjoyment of the gifted property ( second limb ) but also the exclusion ( or , presumably , the virtual exclusion ) of the donor from any benefit to him by contract or otherwise ( Oakes v Commissioners of Stamp Duties [ 1954 ] AC 57 ) . |
| 9 | But each time it emerged unscathed , unmarked . |
| 10 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 11 | Yeah , but this time it looked bad cor look at |
| 12 | Yeah , but this time it looked bad cor look at |
| 13 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 14 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 15 | But this time it went wrong and Ms Kennedy , who plays a republican activist in the drama , had to receive treatment for an eye injury . |
| 16 | But this time it seemed worse . |
| 17 | When posed in such stark but accurate terms it becomes difficult to see why this is supposed to amount to a distinct moral justification for punishment . |
| 18 | News at Ten may have been ahead of the BBC 's Nine O'Clock News in the ratings but last night it seemed unsure of what it was trying to do . |
| 19 | But last night it cost fourteen year old Lewis Hall his life . |
| 20 | But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles . |