Example sentences of "and it [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bert knew that Mrs Tremayne wanted a fence repaired and it seemed an excellent opportunity to use his sudden free time by visiting Four Winds .
2 ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock .
3 This represented a very different target group to the one with which I was familiar , and it seemed an alien approach to me .
4 His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him .
5 It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair .
6 Its wealth was largely non-industrial and it contained an enormous pool of underemployed and unemployed people .
7 The smell of waterproofs and leather was very strong in the confined space of the cloakroom , and it gave an unreal quality to everything .
8 It used the allocation , came back and said that its original estimate was entirely wrong and it required an extra £48 million — the original estimate was £48 million out .
9 The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland .
10 They went begging and it needed an excellent save from goalkeeper Roberts to deny Saunders again in the 76th minute .
11 And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one .
12 It once owned 1,000 acres in what was then Ceylon , where it created plantations to process palm oil ( at that time the main raw material in candles ) , and it built an entire village , Bromborough Pool on Merseyside , for employees .
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