Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The anger obsessed her , but later she turned it on herself and found it mixed with shamed bewilderment . |
3 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
4 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
5 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
8 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |