Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having no qualifications I launched into a career as a journalist and for my health it became downhill all the way . |
| 2 | Eventually the snow was so deep that it filled in all the fields with only the top few inches of the wall sticking out . |
| 3 | As to the liquor , it filled about half the coffin and in it ‘ feathers , flowers , and herbs in abundance were floating , the leaves and stalks of which appeared quite perfect , but totally discoloured ’ . |
| 4 | For all the gadgetry , everything stopped when the photocopier was working because it soaked up all the power . |
| 5 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 6 | Right , here we went at twice the speed , and it finished up half the time . |
| 7 | It brought back all the resentment at unjust accusations of 11 months before . |
| 8 | Cos it fell off all the time . |
| 9 | Her voice was lovely , but it took away all the life from the words . |
| 10 | It whistled virtually all the way through , it went do n't you know it ? |
| 11 | In France too , the Lumière Brothers operated on a much larger scale than their British counterparts and , by 1902 , Pathé-Frères had expanded to the point where it carried out all the functions relating to film production — from the manufacture of film stock to exhibition . |