Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bert knew that Mrs Tremayne wanted a fence repaired and it seemed an excellent opportunity to use his sudden free time by visiting Four Winds . |
| 2 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 3 | This represented a very different target group to the one with which I was familiar , and it seemed an alien approach to me . |
| 4 | His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him . |
| 5 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
| 6 | Its wealth was largely non-industrial and it contained an enormous pool of underemployed and unemployed people . |
| 7 | The smell of waterproofs and leather was very strong in the confined space of the cloakroom , and it gave an unreal quality to everything . |
| 8 | It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out . |
| 9 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 10 | They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute . |
| 11 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 12 | It once owned 1,000 acres in what was then Ceylon , where it created plantations to process palm oil ( at that time the main raw material in candles ) , and it built an entire village , Bromborough Pool on Merseyside , for employees . |
| 13 | The pope was wrong ; the Curia was wrong ; Anselm 's judgement was right but had no authority ; the authority quoted by Ivo was certainly spurious , but it produced an acceptable result . |
| 14 | Well , yes , of course it could , but it seemed an odd way of going about things . |
| 15 | Perhaps they had adjusted to the sanitised neutralism of a Stockholm commune , but it seemed an odd life for men who had chosen to become soldiers . |
| 16 | I thought she said , ‘ Sand under my plate ’ , but it seemed an unlikely remark , so I smiled , soothing her like a baby . |
| 17 | I wondered briefly whether my father had a tendency to marry women who would make their children unhappy , but it seemed an unfair reflection . |
| 18 | This eventually fostered the birth of Sussex gun-making but it meant an inevitable increase in local tension and a continued vulnerability to French attacks . |
| 19 | The Council was merely an umbrella organization for a large and expanding number of countryside and amenity organizations , but it became an invaluable integrator , particularly on the issue of National Parks when it set up its own Standing Committee . |
| 20 | Today the family has new hope , but it took an eight week jail term and the care of the prison 's medical officer to have Andrew admitted for treatment |
| 21 | But it gave an added attraction to the plenary session anyway . |
| 22 | But it proved an expensive success , and in these straitened times , everybody is playing safe . |
| 23 | No agreed reform plan had been forthcoming in 1917–18 but it remained an agreed priority of the government to the end , and pledge after pledge was given . |