Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 2 | It passed a few minutes later . |
| 3 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 4 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 5 | But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal . |
| 6 | I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe . |
| 7 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 8 | When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding . |
| 9 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 10 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 12 | Spurred on again by a stream of oaths , it staggered a few paces further and sank to the ground , defeated . |
| 13 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 14 | With difficulty , though , she hid her ire — and it seemed a good idea then to reply to this high and mighty man with what he all too clearly wanted to hear . |
| 15 | It seemed a comforting sound now , as if the mountain had grown friendly towards her . |
| 16 | Mister Johnny talked in his gobbly voice all the way and it seemed a friendly noise now , pushing the night back . |
| 17 | it seemed a long way away |
| 18 | It seemed a long way away and he focused his mind with an effort . |
| 19 | It seemed a long way away but before we knew it we were paying the last of the deposits . |
| 20 | ‘ It happened a long time ago , my dear , when we were quite small , romping in the wood . |
| 21 | And it did not happen here , not at St-Jean , it happened a hundred miles away and more , across the border , at Alassio , in another country , in my country , one of my countries . |
| 22 | It happened a few months later . |
| 23 | It showed a dark mass close to the front of the skull . |
| 24 | Next to it squatted a young girl about fifteen or sixteen years old . |
| 25 | Montesquieu 's own work was not entirely new since it was based on classical models , but it started a growing tradition both in France and in the other main centre of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment , Scotland . |
| 26 | It started a few days ago . |
| 27 | ‘ Phoenixa ’ is EMI 's culling from the old Pye Nixa catalogue , which it acquired a few years ago and launched with a contribution from each record sold to the environmental music charity ‘ Music for the World ’ . |
| 28 | I had heard the word before , and knew it meant a cruel punishment often used by pirates — leaving a man alone on some distant , empty island . |
| 29 | Trouble was he lived at Selsit , which was up over the Pennine Way , across the high moor , and it meant a three-hour trek there and back . |
| 30 | It took a hundred firefighters more than four hours to bring it under control . |