Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] a [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 | 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 | ‘ Children have been used up to this because we felt it showed a non-violent style . ’ |
| 9 | Type-cases too were heavy , and if one fell it took a long time to sort out the type again . |
| 10 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yes that you said it er Pat thought it seemed a good thing , the way you were saying it |
| 15 | I thought it seemed a funny thing to do . |
| 16 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 17 | thought , yeah , I thought it looked a nice colour , it does look , you know , it does look nice and shiny and |
| 18 | None thought it deserved a higher chart placing . |
| 19 | The Audi that thought it had a clear run had to brake hard … |
| 20 | ( 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 . |
| 21 | Alice thought it sounded a hand-to-mouth existence . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You know , Nicholas , that whatever miseries the Great War brought it destroyed a great deal that was unhealthy between the sexes . |
| 24 | oh it made it made a nice change . |
| 25 | Rain said if Maureen did it suggested a powerful reason for her certainty that her father had died for political reasons . |
| 26 | I took this to be a dream of fear of exposure due to approaching First Night , but Amy looked it up in her Dictionary of Dreams under ‘ defecate ’ ( sorry about that ) and she said it meant a huge windfall ( that too ) . |
| 27 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 28 | Morse said it lent a new meaning to the phrase ‘ keeping a shop ’ . ’ |
| 29 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 30 | He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway . |