Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 2 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 3 | The anger obsessed her , but later she turned it on herself and found it mixed with shamed bewilderment . |
| 4 | The new state comprised the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia together with Slovakia which , until 1918 , had been part of Hungary , together with Ruthenia and a northern fringe of the Hungarian plain which , though it was Magyar-speaking , the new state claimed it needed on economic grounds . |
| 5 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 6 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 7 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 8 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 9 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 10 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
| 11 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |
| 12 | , I thought it came on seven disks not six . |
| 13 | On the way back across the lake I dragged my ankle in the cold water and back at camp kept it elevated with cold cloths , then Kaz wrapped it in an ice bandage . |
| 14 | So nobody could I kept that shop , I paid the rent on the shop for twelve months , I kept it closed for twelve months , to get that place going . |
| 15 | Our miracle — for that was how it felt , how she hoped it felt for all women . |
| 16 | Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours . |