Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 2 | The smell was so bad it made some of his children sick : |
| 3 | It seemed all of her father 's old acquaintances had not been too impressed by his choice of wife . |
| 4 | He turned to James in amazement and saw that he was enjoying his surprise , as though it confirmed one of his arguments . |
| 5 | The policies of the ILP had lost it much support but in its opposition to the war and to conscription it regained some of its influence on the Left . |
| 6 | For a while it preserved some of its glory in South Park as the rare postcard ( borrowed from the collection in the Bygones shop in McMullen Road ) shows . |
| 7 | While Amnesty recorded that ANC supporters had also committed abuses , it reserved most of its criticism for state departments . |
| 8 | In one act at the exhibition hangar gave NAM ‘ back ’ its workshop , enabling the restoration of Anson C.19 VL348 to come on apace ; it allowed several of their exhibits the luxury of a controlled environment ; gave the Museum an ‘ all weather ’ visitor capability and made them a suitable location for the RAF Museum to loan them their Airspeed Oxford and North American Harvard — see the August issue . |
| 9 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 10 | It lost much of its roof during the great storm of 1987 which devastated large parts of Kent and turned Sevenoaks into Oneoak . |
| 11 | Within the confines of a shorter timescale , it lost much of its effectiveness . |
| 12 | Though it still controlled local government , it lost some of its power of patronage and could no longer direct national policy in favour of its clientele . |
| 13 | Last year it derived three-quarters of its turnover from photocopiers and cameras . |
| 14 | It contained two of his screenplays , Valley of the Stratocasters and , confusingly , Decimator . |
| 15 | It took all of his strength to free the buckled doorway , but eventually it broke free with a protesting groan . |