Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My hair had more shine than before and I found it left a stronger smell than other conditioners which I really liked .
2 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 .
3 It looked awful at first — so bad it was wonderful — but as it dried it revealed an incredible gradient of colour . ’
4 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 .
5 At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy .
6 When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme .
7 When landlord John Gardner bought the pub he decided it needed a new colour scheme .
8 Although the member States had created the Council , once established it became a separate entity with its own international executive .
9 A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square .
10 They felt it emphasised the Polish presence in the city .
11 ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’
12 Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again .
13 Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it
18 I thought it seemed a funny thing to do .
19 But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly .
20 thought , yeah , I thought it looked a nice colour , it does look , you know , it does look nice and shiny and
21 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 .
22 None thought it deserved a higher chart placing .
23 The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard …
24 No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem .
25 No school thought it had the perfect answer and all stressed the need for constant awareness of the problem .
26 ( 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 .
27 Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence .
28 They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish .
29 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 .
30 You know , Nicholas , that whatever miseries the Great War brought it destroyed a great deal that was unhealthy between the sexes .
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