Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Led by this hint they opened the ground not far from the wall ; and not much more than a foot away from the surface they found a leaden envelope which they opened in two places , on the face and breast , and found it contained a human body wrapped in cerecloth : Upon removing what covered the face , they discovered the features , and particularly the eyes , in perfect preservation . |
2 | It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’ |
3 | On one of their visits , there was an uncanny , if hilarious , echo of the kind of political and religious turmoil experienced by Olive 's family in years gone by One day they were boarding a boat and noticed it contained a large number of sticks , shaped like rifles . |
4 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
5 | When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme . |
6 | Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive . |
7 | A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square . |
8 | They felt it emphasised the Polish presence in the city . |
9 | ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’ |
10 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
11 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
12 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
13 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |
14 | I zipped back along the M20 , letting Armstrong have his head as I thought it made a nice change for him not to plod through heavy traffic at ten miles an hour . |
15 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
16 | I thought it seemed a funny thing to do . |
17 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
18 | thought , yeah , I thought it looked a nice colour , it does look , you know , it does look nice and shiny and |
19 | I had noticed the scaffolding placed around it the week before and thought it looked an odd sight , with the Chairman 's head just visible over the striped plastic sheeting . |
20 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
21 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
22 | No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem . |
23 | ( In my enthusiasm , I sent this letter to everyone whose name and number were on my telephone pad ( I ’ d been out rather a lot , and other members of the family took the calls ) ; this included someone who 'd phoned for a different reason , and next day I got a somewhat bemused call from an elderly gentleman who had never heard of Donkey Lane , but thought it sounded a splendid project and wanted to know all about it . |
24 | Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence . |
25 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
26 | I thought it showed a gross lack of understanding on her part to have made a comment like this and it made me doubt whether she understood the complexity of the situation . |
27 | You know , Nicholas , that whatever miseries the Great War brought it destroyed a great deal that was unhealthy between the sexes . |
28 | oh it made it made a nice change . |
29 | Yesterday the National Audit Office , the official public spending watchdog , admitted it missed the legal aid bill — run up as Mr Lamont evicted a sex therapist from his flat — when it went through the Treasury accounts . |
30 | If whoever bought it had an unsavoury reputation it would n't do much harm to the seagulls or Brent geese . |