Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Blue Angel ’ was made in Germany in 1930 in both German and English versions , and because it became a world-wide smash hit , it remains one of the best-known and best-loved movies of all time . |
| 2 | It gradually descended and changed in colour , until it became a blue-grey mist seething over the heads of the musicians , almost as if the sweat generated by their exertions was steaming in cold air above them . |
| 3 | It became a desperate struggle to get them on ; the longer it took the more difficult it became as my fingers became numb and useless . |
| 4 | For many , it became a unique chance to have their voices heard through a diversity of media , linking artists culturally visually , emotionally and psychologically to those entering the exhibition spaces of participating in the events . |
| 5 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 6 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 7 | It recommended a two-pronged strategy comprising ( i ) " the productive use of the poor 's most abundant resource , their labour " ; and ( ii ) " improved health and education " . |
| 8 | She said it made a real change to have a bit of humour round the place . |
| 9 | However , the UK failed in its attempt to head off the EC Commission , even though it made a last-minute offer to bring forward compliance of five water supplies contaminated with nitrate , from 1995 to 1991–4 , ‘ a shift , ’ according to ENDS , ‘ which , until then , the UK had insisted would be impractical . ’ |
| 10 | However , in relation to the theme of this chapter , this development was significant because it created an urgent need to justify the massive input of resources . |
| 11 | Somewhere here were the contributions of Duroc 's ancestors : a series of articles co-written by Pierre Henri Duroc and Donatien Alphonse Francois , Marquis de Sade , speculating on the limits of the human mind when confronted with endless pain ; some transcripts from the meetings of Robespierre 's Committee of Public Safety , in which the fates of some of the first families of France were decided on a whim ; a suppressed account of certain discoveries in a pre-human city that came to light in 19th-century French Equatorial Africa before the cyclopean stones mysteriously sank into the soft jungle earth ; Cauchemar et Fils , Maitres des Mondes Perdues , an unpublished novel by M. Jules Verne that was purchased from the author by a Great-Great-Great-Uncle and consigned to obscurity because it described a steam-driven engine to open up a gateway to a world of dreams that bore a remarkable similarity to a device that the Duroc of the time had indeed developed . |
| 12 | He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway . |
| 13 | It proposed a simpler statute abandoning many aspects of the previous draft , and it would be optional . |
| 14 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 15 | The show was timely in another respect , for it added a definite European feel to the year 's events . |
| 16 | With it came an overwhelming desire to press herself closer . |
| 17 | But now , along the middle of it came an old woman pushing a hand-cart on which was a pile of rags . |
| 18 | It 's my job to keep a check on the stock and it seemed a good chance to get something done … ’ |
| 19 | I designed the itinerary , of course , for high political resonance , but it seemed a good idea to take in beautiful towns and routes . |
| 20 | It seemed a good idea to see what it was she was defending with such tenacity . |
| 21 | In fact , there was no chance of losing her job , but sooner or later she would have to go and it seemed a good idea to lay down a time now . |
| 22 | It seemed a good idea to have a companion when I knew I had to face a Spanish maniac ! ’ |
| 23 | It seemed a good idea to pin her thoughts elsewhere . |
| 24 | The most frightening is rainforest destruction , and being a carpenter and joiner by trade anyway I have used many threatened species in my past and it seemed a good thing to start with . |
| 25 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 26 | It seemed a good place to defend ourselves against Silver and his men , because we were sure they would kill us when they returned to the ship . |
| 27 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 28 | It seemed a good time to make my excuses and leave , and I did both . ’ |
| 29 | To Robyn , it seemed a providential opportunity to make another — this time decisive — break with Charles . |
| 30 | It was only when I was almost in despair that I recalled having seen a letter written by a knitter from overseas , about an easy way to make cables and it seemed a pleasant way to take a break by referring back a few months until I found the letter from — you 've guessed it — June Shaw . |