Example sentences of "and it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The part of her story about the pressure of Government cuts was true , and it seemed a long time since she 'd existed in a world that was n't penny-pinching . |
| 32 | I 'm built for action , and it seemed a raw deal being dumped in a desolate corner of London with the kind of instructions you 'd give an old man on retirement . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | ‘ 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 . |
| 35 | This represented a very different target group to the one with which I was familiar , and it seemed an alien approach to me . |
| 36 | And it came a heavy shower , thunder shower . |
| 37 | A horrible weakness seemed to have invaded her limbs and it took a supreme effort to drag her attention back to the conversation . |
| 38 | Jenna slept badly , waking with a throbbing pain in her head , and it took a great effort to swing both her feet from the bed and sit on the edge . |
| 39 | And it took a great deal of effort to set up , a lot of work already done . |
| 40 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 41 | Progress was slow and it took a long time to get a handicap , the first being 17 . |
| 42 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 43 | Portadown however remained dangerous and it took a superb block from Michael Smyth to deny Cunningham after brilliant work from Martin Russell on the left . |
| 44 | The only unqualified crossover success in recent years has been Cher , and it took a minor miracle for her to get there . |
| 45 | Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | And it had a knock-on effect . |
| 48 | It had been David 's most miserable year on the field and it had a devastating effect on his private life . ’ |
| 49 | It was loud , aggressive and it had a good tune , ’ says Peter Thompson , head of distribution at Red Rhino . |
| 50 | Oh there had , had er it h erm had a marvellous water supply and it had a good sewage it had a good sewage disposal system . |
| 51 | I do n't think I would ever do such a thing again , but when the depression settles on me I 'm very vulnerable , and if I went to see a film and it had a drowning sequence in it , or swirling water , then you just ca n't tell . |
| 52 | The leghorn straw was not large for that particular type of hat and it had a brown velvet ribbon on it . |
| 53 | And it had a lovely perfume . |
| 54 | Only this was more painful than the barn floor and it had a different texture . |
| 55 | It was 9in to 10in long and it had a jagged edge like a saw blade . ’ |
| 56 | It was called the Eel and Boot and it had a large sign outside with a welly covered in slime and an even slimier serpentine creature peering irritably out of the top of it like Ridley Scott 's alien in one of its earlier manifestations . |
| 57 | Mason 's was one of the largest machine-works in North Sydney and it had a large labour force . |
| 58 | and it had a big basement and everything on it . |
| 59 | and we had er , I mean we had a bright orange swivel chair and when that came out it was called the Orbit or something , something really weird and it had a big back on it and we thought it was great I mean , I think it 's awful now , some of the things we had , I 'll have to try and find some photographs cos I 've got a case full of photographs upstairs |
| 60 | And it had a top speed of around 105mph , at a time when most family saloons were struggling to reach 70mph . |