Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until a couple of days before the price was announced Warburg was working towards a Fr70 price , and only pushed this up to Fr72 ( 707p ) when it saw how strong demand was . |
| 2 | It mattered not that Kite was beaten by Suzuki and Strange by Ozaki for the Americans already had an unassailable 3 ½ points on the board . |
| 3 | He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him . |
| 4 | It began to pick up speed and as it did so larger fireworks were detonated , so that showers of sparks and clouds of coloured smoke trailed behind like a peacock 's tail , green and red and blue . |
| 5 | Reserved , enigmatic , a soldier rather than a statesman — it appeared withal that ambition was the protector 's guiding star . |