Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shocking as the assault had been , it had prepared her for another encounter — an encounter with a youth of her own age , bewildered and uneasy , one called to high estate who found himself of a sudden alone on the edge of an abyss … |
| 2 | Indeed , if anything , it had insulated them from urban industrial life . |
| 3 | It had arranged itself around bright canvas bags and wicker baskets in the part-shade of a fishing-boat . |
| 4 | The question turned off Lomax 's interest like a tap that realises it had flooded itself into deep water . |
| 5 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 6 | It had meant nothing at first , but then he had thought to try it as an entry code to some of the secret Ping Tiao computer networks he had discovered weeks before but had failed to penetrate . |
| 7 | Until now it had meant nothing at all , but now she really knew what it meant . |
| 8 | In the heat of the moment he had wanted her but it had meant nothing after all . |
| 9 | Yes , there was something sexual between the two of them now , but any interest he had felt six years ago would have been connected solely with the phenomenon of the awe he had inspired , so overwhelmingly intense that it had reduced her to awkward , agonised silence every time he was around . |
| 10 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |