Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
2 | Love was too complicated an emotion for him ; it required too much staying power . |
3 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
4 | It emerged also that air force commander Gen. Yevgeny Shaposhnikov and air force paratroopers commander Pavel Grachev had disobeyed the SCSE , Grachev ordering the Svirskaya paratroop division to withdraw from an attack on the Russian Supreme Soviet building . |
5 | There was outrage when it emerged recently that home care support for severely disabled users of the new Independent Living ( 1993 ) Fund would be capped at £500 . |
6 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
7 | Here was a country so backward that it had only one landing strip , a mile of tarmacadam road , six schools and two hospitals that were really little more than clinics . |