Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought . |
| 2 | It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off ! |
| 3 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 4 | D' you think when The Bomber came down it just killed twenty people and left the rest of us drinking Korn and singing fal-lal-lal ? |
| 5 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 6 | Although partly looted , it still contained nine skeletons and numerous previously unknown examples of painted cloth carefully pasted over gilded sheet metal up to 2.5 x 1.5 m in size . |
| 7 | It still attracted considerable interest and made $20,000 ( £14,285 ) . |
| 8 | It also cleaned fire-charred beams and exposed the structural soundness of the underlying solid wood . |
| 9 | It also sought greater openness and less centralization of EC affairs . |
| 10 | It also housed countless bars and gin shops , as well as a number of churches , chapels , and temperance halls , the latter set up , as it were , in opposition to as many brothels . |
| 11 | It also voided any disclaimer or limitation of the owner 's obligation of due diligence in regard to seaworthiness , or in equipping the vessel . |
| 12 | The proposal to delegate responsibilities to local authorities was anathema to the Thatcher government in particular as it profoundly mistrusted local government and had progressively weakened its influence . |
| 13 | As the season drew to a close it actively encouraged early retirement and voluntary redundancy amongst its older or less productive workers and filled the resulting vacancies with the most productive temporary workers . |
| 14 | Its party chairman , Ivan Velkov , declared that it had existed as a " political circle " since the end of 1988 and as a party since Dec. 30 , 1989 , and that it currently had 10,000 members and adherents . |
| 15 | It never drew large crowds and The Birds was no exception . |