Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Permission was granted , however , for the weekend of June 27/28 when it operated all the advertised service trains on both days . |
| 2 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 3 | It was depressing to think that he was the closest friend that the old man had , and it stirred all the usual guilt feelings — should have gone to see him more often , and so on . |
| 4 | Because it rained all the next week , Mary went to talk to Colin every day instead of visiting the garden . |
| 5 | At least it covered all the sharp projections , and we discovered it could be cut ridiculously easy with a saw , to something like level with the surrounding crazy paving . |
| 6 | ‘ It had all the best things about being at school , like the chumminess , but there were no standards to keep to . |
| 7 | It had all the required characteristics of a living being and Lovelock concluded that this indeed was what it was . |
| 8 | It had all the rugged grandeur of the sea-girt castle of a medieval Danish warrior-king . |
| 9 | The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence . |
| 10 | Shady Marcus at last exposed the soap 's Mr Big but it had all the dramatic impact of one of those dated Ealing comedies where George Cole plays a gangster as threatening as a game show host . |
| 11 | And then , for ten , twenty , forty hours or so the millions sit back to watch the show as the huge tropical storm lashes and bursts and howls its way around the islands , shaking , shuddering and drenching the place as if it held all the concentrated fury of nature and had decided to unleash it upon this one unfortunate spot . |