Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb infin] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance . |
| 2 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 3 | He made it sound like bad TV entertainment . |
| 4 | It made it look like golden silk , and she had the urge to run her hands over it to find out . |
| 5 | The sky was huge , a pale , bright , cloudless blue , and the white surface of the road ahead rippled in the heat mirages that made it look like little waves . |
| 6 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 7 | If so , did it lead to such unfairness that the statement ought not to have been admitted ? |
| 8 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
| 9 | So why did it end with dwindling audiences and a critical drubbing ? |
| 10 | But what did it say about legal life in Birmingham ? |
| 11 | What did it say in those notes ? |