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Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly .
2	It passed a few minutes later .
3	It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’
4	It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) .
5	But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal .
6	Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 .
7	Notably , it produced the clearest suggestion yet from the Soviet side that it was willing to compromise in the 45-year-old territorial dispute between the two countries .
8	I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe .
9	Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway .
10	I had often marvelled at it , but it made the present disaster all the more unbearable .
11	It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions .
12	When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding .
13	And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one .
14	It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches .
15	Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party .
16	Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron .
17	Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated .
18	It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms .
19	When the cutting of timber free of charge was prohibited , it affected the poor peasants most severely .
20	With difficulty , though , she hid her ire — and it seemed a good idea then to reply to this high and mighty man with what he all too clearly wanted to hear .
21	It seemed a comforting sound now , as if the mountain had grown friendly towards her .
22	Mister Johnny talked in his gobbly voice all the way and it seemed a friendly noise now , pushing the night back .
23	it seemed a long way away
24	It seemed a long way away and he focused his mind with an effort .
25	It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits .
26	‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood .
27	And it did not happen here , not at St-Jean , it happened a hundred miles away and more , across the border , at Alassio , in another country , in my country , one of my countries .
28	It happened a few months later .
29	It showed a dark mass close to the front of the skull .
30	Wherever responsibility for the mistakes lay — and it lay with Churchill and the British as much as with the Free French — the failure was a colossal humiliation for de Gaulle , because it showed an imperial administration utterly loyal to Vichy and more than capable of repelling the Free French .