Example sentences of "and it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was too mortifying for words , and it intensified the vulnerable feeling she 'd been experiencing around Guy Sterne . |
| 2 | Doing Ophelia on stage before taking up the BBC contract meant that I went there with a little track record — I 'd been blooded , if you like , and it made the whole thing a lot better . |
| 3 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 4 | Nineteenth-century legislation swept away the fictions upon which trover was based and it became the modern action for conversion , though no change was made in the substance of the law . |
| 5 | Versions of the recently introduced song God Save Great George Our King were now heard on all sides ; a little later the text was finalised and it became the national anthem . |
| 6 | In one move , there was a new generation and it adopted the generic term of ‘ Hawaiian ’ . |
| 7 | Well I think you 've heard some of it already in your programme , but in the afternoon session which was extremely interesting , the City Council and Oxford University and the Vale of White Horse District Council and West Oxfordshire District Council have jointly financed some major research for independent research bodies and that research was put forward yesterday , this afternoon rather , to the Panel , and it concerned the economic order , social order and what should come next and so on and so forth , and those academically research papers , not politically prejudiced papers , showed that there would be a loss of 6,150 jobs if these plans went ahead , with an estimated loss to the Oxford economy of between 8 and 17 million pounds a year . |
| 8 | The actual reasons for the popularity ( albeit relatively short-lived ) of the high-rise phase are many : it was architecturally fashionable ; it may have suited municipal prestige ; it answered immediate problems of increasing density as the big cities ran out of building land within their own boundaries ; and it met the spurious argument about saving agricultural land ( mounted by the farming lobby and the Conservative-dominated shire counties ) . |
| 9 | Sadly it was sooner , and it spoiled the whole party . |
| 10 | This constituted the formal , operational information produced by the organisation , and it underpinned the subsequent R&D , manufacturing and marketing activity for the next decade . |
| 11 | Youth was not a fundamental problem , but lack of ability was ; and it drove the focal point of French politics away from the king to the dominant and rival forces of the Guises and the queen mother Catherine . |
| 12 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 13 | This was a politico-literary piece , and it brought the following response , dated 5 may 1936 . |
| 14 | This was the third year running that Booker Fitch had given the award to students on the HCIMA course , and it attracted the greatest number of entries to date . |
| 15 | Whatever was supposed to be wrong had never hindered Rosenthal 's career , and it seemed the real reason for Udinese 's calling off the transfer — they signed Argentinian striker Abel Balbo instead — was the level of anti-semitism in the town . |
| 16 | ‘ We are always busy here , and it seemed the right time to start planning for an extension , ’ she said . |
| 17 | I learnt with someone else , did two years and then er that was an accident if you like that I got involved cos somebody wanted me to be involved and and it seemed the right thing at the time . |
| 18 | I think they 'd always sort of wanted to go and explore , yes , and it seemed the ideal time , the boys were just about school age , erm , sort of you could well . |
| 19 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 20 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 21 | I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday . |
| 22 | That 's right , er and it had the same number |
| 23 | Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister . |
| 24 | Nazi soldiers burnt the city to the ground in 1944 , and it had the bad luck to be rebuilt , for the most part , by tasteless Stalinists . |
| 25 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 26 | Harwell had superb skills and facilities and it fitted the current zeitgeist that these be applied to the solution of industrial problems on a fee-paying basis . |
| 27 | For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue . |
| 28 | A straight channel was cut under the new bridge for the river to run in and it joined the original channel near the site of the old boathouse , the river 's original course having been near where the old Post Office used to stand . |
| 29 | Overall , the review may be judged to have been effective in that it produced valid and reliable evidence of how things were in the Art department , on the basis of which prescriptions for institutional changes might be made , and it provided the necessary motivation for those changes of the most direct importance to the pupils to be acted upon . |
| 30 | And it confronted the tsarist regime with a challenge it could not withstand . |