Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [adj -est] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
2 | bella was of the opinion that Randall had done them all an immense favour by dying when he did , but Louise regarded it as the greatest of all his cruelties . |
3 | It is a resort proud of its fascinating heritage which once placed it among the wealthiest of trading republics — rivalling both Venice and Genoa . |
4 | The blue eyes regarded the world with the slightly cynical assurance of a man accustomed to getting what he wanted when he wanted it by the simplest of expedients , that of paying for it . |
5 | Illuminated in Tours around 1520 , it contains twelve full-page miniatures of the emperors and was possibly made for the library of Francois I. The manuscript has a distinguished provenance : it belonged at the Jesuit College de Clermont Library in Paris and later to the celebrated English collector Sir Thomas Phillips who considered it among the finest of his 60,000 manuscripts . |