Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb infin] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving the light round the half-circle , he let it rest on the third stone from the mouth of the chamber on the right hand side — the one which had been so prominent in his ‘ photograph ’ . |
| 2 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 3 | It was a lie ; they both heard it ring like a dud coin . |
| 4 | The longer she gazed down , through the tendril of tobacco smoke , the more the meeting merged into the older , stronger established patterns and colours of the valley floor until , eyes half-closed , she saw it disappear into the ancient landscape … |
| 5 | As I said last week , he c he er made it appear to the British that he s sought to control the channel ports and with a large navy was then capable of interfering with our trade and in in indeed mounting an invasion , and that brought Britain into a war which could not be ended until the Germans sued for surrender and vice versa . |
| 6 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 7 | She made it sound like a public execution , Christina thought . |
| 8 | Somehow he made it sound like a valid excuse . |
| 9 | Another director made it sound like a Faustian pact with the devil : ‘ You have to be careful not to lose your soul ’ , he whispered . |
| 10 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 11 | How did this hut started , was it , did it start as an agricultural building , or a house , or a just a plan hut ? |
| 12 | Consequently , nationalisation expressed their political wish , but just as that did n't extend to an alternative philosophy at the economic or political level , neither did it extend to a radical philosophy of personal life . |
| 13 | How did it develop in the sixties ? |
| 14 | Balbirnie House , near Glenrothes in Fife , set itself a double challenge when it opened in November 1989 : not only did it launch into a depressed economy , but during a traditionally poor month for Scottish hotels . |
| 15 | ‘ Did it come as a great surprise to you ? ’ |
| 16 | Did it come as a sudden revelation and a flash of light to Brigadier Crawley , or was it that the development corporation , with its vast capital expenditure , needed a prestige project to give it credence in the eyes of the commercial world ? |
| 17 | But how did it look to the light beams ? |
| 18 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |