Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sniffed it and whispered an obscene word to it , then I put on my coat and overshoes and walked out of the hotel . |
| 2 | Following the failure of an unknown inventor 's narrow-gauge electric line at Blackpool 's Winter Gardens , Holroyd Smith used his experimental apparatus to rebuild it and produced a successful revenue-earner which was seen by Blackpool Tramways Committee . |
| 3 | When I finally sold it and acquired a respectable saloon , some of the excitement went out of motoring . |
| 4 | The priest found his eyes drawn towards it and made a conscious effort to stop staring at it . |
| 5 | A constable brought Wycliffe 's coffee ; he sipped it and made a wry face . |
| 6 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 7 | Edward lifted it and splashed a little water into the teapot , swirling it around . |
| 8 | They declared the video to be obscene , confiscated it and imposed an on-the-spot fine on my friend . |
| 9 | That 's twice with the chief , thought Rex , who rather than have his head mashed by a slamming door , put his boot against it and offered a mighty kick . |
| 10 | Should have thought about it and got a different sort of erm temperature thing in instead of two kormas . |
| 11 | Your parents wo n't keep in touch with your old fast car after you 've dumped it and got a newer model . |
| 12 | By the 1920s Frank Hender had bought it and installed a small brass finishing workshop on the upper floor , the lower section being let to a Mr Thompson for shoe stiffening manufacture . |
| 13 | They had a new machine in , but after a pound or so I had mastered it and won an extra spaceship . |
| 14 | The military government was in the position where it wished to sustain the south Korean rightists , who now repudiated it and pursued an independent path . |
| 15 | Catherine Crane went across to open it and held a murmured conversation with someone . |