Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was , it seemed to require all your attention and I understood that I was to go . |
| 2 | Or the time when the distraught lady asked how to make her puppy sick , because it had eaten all her house-keeping money — and she wanted it back ! |
| 3 | He had blurted it out , and with it had gone all his shyness ; he turned and looked into her face . |
| 4 | But the resistance has already scored an important propaganda victory against government forces , only a week after Vietnam said it had withdrawn all its troops from Cambodia . |
| 5 | MacDonald told him that if he had tried to stop it , there would have been a riot , and that it had required all his influence to prevent his followers from singing the ‘ Red Flag ’ in the House of Commons itself on the night the Baldwin Government fell . |
| 6 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 7 | It had taken all her strength to go to the man who thought children were special . |
| 8 | It had taken all her strength to get this far in her life . |
| 9 | It had taken all her courage to come here with head held high , to converse with any degree of composure with the young men who interestedly flocked about her , thanks to Araminta 's loose tongue . |
| 10 | It had taken all his willpower not to plunge himself inside her there and then . |
| 11 | It had changed half its policies , modernised its machine , replaced two leaders . |