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

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1 He was surprised at its strength as it curled sic three inch long body around his index finger , and squeezed .
2 AFTER reading the articles on dyslexic children it brought back this time last year when my son Steven , who is dyslexic , was trying for an engineering apprenticeship .
3 It took around fifty officers two hours to bring it under control .
4 The film starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine was a huge success , but for some people it left too many questions unanswered .
5 And she stared at it , glad to have been told that it was not good , for she could make nothing of it : it stood about five feet high , on a stone lump , and it had holes in it and stretching arms .
6 On the foreign exchanges , sterling gained ground on the weaker dollar , ending the day up at one dollar point nine seven three oh , however , it ended down one point seven pfennigs closing at three deutschmarks point O O six four .
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