Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 2 | Yet he was such a skilful flyer that to an American of the Lafayette Squadron it seemed as if a plane obeyed his thoughts rather than the controls , and at Verdun alone he shot down six German aircraft and a balloon . |
| 3 | It seemed as if the phone itself was in paroxysm , all squawk and splat like a cabby 's radio . |
| 4 | It seemed as if the Führer was right yet again , and that the end of the Russian campaign was only a few weeks away . |
| 5 | She spread hay over him for warmth , but it seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces . |
| 6 | For a time it seemed as if the Everqueen of Avelorn was lost and the realm with her . |
| 7 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 8 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 9 | At the end of September it seemed as if the monsoon was drawing to a close . |
| 10 | When the coin flipped over , it seemed as if the punishment would be never-ending . |
| 11 | Still looking down , it seemed as if the pattern of squares was moving . |
| 12 | It seemed as if the end of the world had come . |
| 13 | It seemed as if the woman in the adjacent chair had shuffled herself closer . |
| 14 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 15 | It seemed as if the world had stopped to listen . |
| 16 | Surprisingly little drink was enough to intoxicate him but it seemed as if the wine released the power in him . |
| 17 | The interior was probably quite well furnished in the ordinary way , but right now it looked as if a tornado had been through it . |
| 18 | The car was so low it looked as if a giant had tried to stub it out and it was clear that getting out of the bucket seat gave the Greek momentary altitude sickness . |
| 19 | The shelf was full , except for a small gap , where it looked as if a book had been taken out . |
| 20 | There was a time , at the end of summer , a hopeful time , when it looked as if a lot of would-be railway companies would simply vanish , like the mushrooms they were . |
| 21 | And when Biarritz scored a quick try and Blanco landed a sensational penalty from about 60 metres it looked as if a miracle seemed possible simply because so many people passionately wanted it to happen . |
| 22 | But it looked as if the title might yet be decided on the flip of a Manly-sized wave after all . |
| 23 | For the first time , the Christian Democrat vote was less than 30 per cent for both Houses of Parliament — though by the vagaries of the complex system of distributing seats it looked as if the alliance might get a majority in the lower house , the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 24 | ‘ Mrs Army Captain' was often in tears , for it looked as if the Army boys would be in the Ravenna mud until the spring . |
| 25 | However , the only disaster occurred inside the Tower , where the duty staff dived to the floor when it looked as if the port wing was going to come through the window and a bottle of red ink emptied itself down the right sleeve of Flt Lt Dunlop , the Officer in Charge . |
| 26 | It looked as if the serenity of the evening had just come to an end ! |
| 27 | There was a huge row within the Owen family and for a while it looked as if the plug would be pulled immediately . |
| 28 | Now it looked as if the choice had been taken away from her . |
| 29 | It looked as if the defence had made its point . |
| 30 | At one stage it looked as if the balloon was going to take off regardless of the wishes of its crew who fought valiantly to keep it tethered . |