Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the gun , it lifted all of six inches as if to sniff the wind , the massively muscled V8 growling expensively . |
| 2 | It seemed many of these things were squirming around together . |
| 3 | The figure 's breathing was harsh and uneven now and it seemed incapable of further movement . |
| 4 | During its short period of administration , of less than ten months , it accomplished little of real importance — other than the passing of the Wheatley Housing Act which provided generous housing subsidies to both private and public builders and stimulated the council house building boom of the 1920s . |
| 5 | After a lot of effort it wriggled most of one arm free . |
| 6 | It included most of modern France , with the exception of the old Roman province of Septimania , lying between the Rhône delta and the Pyrenees , which remained subject to the Visigoths until the eighth century , and Brittany , over which the Franks exercised influence rather than direct rule . |
| 7 | So still , so derelict , yet it looked capable of sudden movement . |
| 8 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 9 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 10 | It was only a monosyllable , but it had all of ninety kilos behind it . |
| 11 | ‘ It had one of those passion benches — front seats which stretched like a bench across the front for the old intimacy job . |
| 12 | And in the boot it had one of these things . |
| 13 | Although to be fair neither was the East End while it remained full of such people as the Trumpers and Shorrocks . |
| 14 | The first public meeting in Cambridge was warned by the Dean-designate of St Paul 's , the Reverend Professor Inge , that unless controls limited the reproduction of the ‘ urban proletariat ’ , it ‘ may cripple our civilisation as it destroyed that of ancient Rome ’ . |