Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 3 | It seemed to him that Strawberry might as well have said that his tail was an oak tree . |
| 4 | Even if we discount the fact that Rothmans was the British hope in the last Whitbread Round the World Race , it seemed to me that Yachting World took the opportunity to mention tobacco companies wherever possible . |
| 5 | It seemed to us that April that we were seeing one of the results of total permissiveness in a rather comely young man and woman , ill-educated , but neither of them stupid , on trial at Chester Assizes for multiple murder . |
| 6 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
| 7 | It seemed for her that space itself was now slowly constricting . |
| 8 | It happened to me last week . ’ |
| 9 | It finished for me three years ago . |
| 10 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 11 | But it appeared to us unpolitical citizens a matter of pride , of purely military pride . |
| 12 | There was , but it said on it Twelve foot six . |