Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd meant her tone to be clipped and dismissive , but even to her own ears it sounded slurred and indistinct as she made a mental attempt to regain conscious control over the increased rhythm of her heart . |
| 2 | Even to his ears it sounded wild . |
| 3 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 4 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 5 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 6 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 7 | Sun will also be offering Viking versions of the Galaxy 630MP , 670MP and 690MP multi-processors it introduced this winter , configured with one to four processors . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 9 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 10 | In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] . |
| 11 | But to the Hebrew mind it covered all human relationships . |
| 12 | With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact . |
| 13 | With its removeable roof stored in the roof it looked great , but the word from Pininfarina and General Motors Europe was not promising . |
| 14 | After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 15 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 16 | ‘ Then the play opened and on the first Friday it looked set to be the day . |
| 17 | The research it funded all took place in laboratories inside hospitals and there was nothing tangible to show for it . |
| 18 | At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people . |
| 19 | To Lucy it looked drab and overdone , lined with cars bumper-to-bumper like every other London street that she 'd seen since she arrived . |
| 20 | To the LDDC it seemed apparent that any effective programme for Docklands would need to concentrate on a number of key objectives . |
| 21 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 22 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 23 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 24 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 25 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 26 | Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities . |
| 27 | Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon . |
| 28 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 29 | The US State Department said on Tuesday it suspected Serbian arms destined for Somalia were on the ship which was apparently heading for Kenya . |
| 30 | in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time . |