Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 2 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 3 | David Bowie came out properly in a blaze of obvious self-recreation — from Terry Nelhams through Andy Warhol and it touched every suburban heart . |
| 4 | And it made a long garage . |
| 5 | The evening was an enjoyable affair and it made a pleasant change not to have to leave Sally behind . |
| 6 | It had a beautiful soft tail and it made a sad sound : ‘ Eee-eee ! ’ |
| 7 | It was very necessary , and it made a sunny improvement in the event . |
| 8 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 9 | Chesterton , always a favourite author , was a Christian ; it was at this period that Lewis read The Everlasting Man , and it made a profound impression on him . |
| 10 | He says he was an army officer seconded to the site and it made a remarkable contribution to the war , as well as developing the first computer . |
| 11 | This was thought to be due to the fact that the smaller wheels were leading , but the Metropolitan Electric tramways which had some similar cars on almost identical bogies , turned the bogies round on one of their cars ( No. 25 ) and it made no appreciable difference . |
| 12 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 13 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |
| 14 | In 1923 she recorded ‘ Downhearted Blues ’ , one of the 14 releases Bessie had on Columbia that year , and it became a million seller , helping to save the company from certain bankruptcy . |
| 15 | Lady Diana 's engagement to Prince Charles really put Althorp on the map , and it became a full-time job for me . |
| 16 | Er But it took people busy to get it paid , you know , and in fact there was some people that could n't , er and it became a big worry to people . |
| 17 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
| 18 | Versions of the recently introduced song God Save Great George Our King were now heard on all sides ; a little later the text was finalised and it became the national anthem . |
| 19 | The Council 's presidents this time would not hear of it , no doubt after the consternation which had been caused the day before , and it received a favourable vote . |
| 20 | In one move , there was a new generation and it adopted the generic term of ‘ Hawaiian ’ . |
| 21 | Well I think you 've heard some of it already in your programme , but in the afternoon session which was extremely interesting , the City Council and Oxford University and the Vale of White Horse District Council and West Oxfordshire District Council have jointly financed some major research for independent research bodies and that research was put forward yesterday , this afternoon rather , to the Panel , and it concerned the economic order , social order and what should come next and so on and so forth , and those academically research papers , not politically prejudiced papers , showed that there would be a loss of 6,150 jobs if these plans went ahead , with an estimated loss to the Oxford economy of between 8 and 17 million pounds a year . |
| 22 | It redefined treason and sedition and severely constrained the freedoms of meeting , speech and writing , and it funded a massive output of loyalist pamphleteering to counteract the Rights of Man . |
| 23 | And it looked a nice pony one . |
| 24 | The actual reasons for the popularity ( albeit relatively short-lived ) of the high-rise phase are many : it was architecturally fashionable ; it may have suited municipal prestige ; it answered immediate problems of increasing density as the big cities ran out of building land within their own boundaries ; and it met the spurious argument about saving agricultural land ( mounted by the farming lobby and the Conservative-dominated shire counties ) . |
| 25 | And it provoked a furious backlash from Labour and union leaders . |
| 26 | And it provoked a furious backlash from Labour and union leaders . |
| 27 | Sadly it was sooner , and it spoiled the whole party . |
| 28 | This constituted the formal , operational information produced by the organisation , and it underpinned the subsequent R&D , manufacturing and marketing activity for the next decade . |
| 29 | Youth was not a fundamental problem , but lack of ability was ; and it drove the focal point of French politics away from the king to the dominant and rival forces of the Guises and the queen mother Catherine . |
| 30 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |