Example sentences of "[prep] it [adj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The strain of it all brought on a heart attack . |
| 2 | The erotic side of it all developed , of course , rapidly and by itself , gathering more and more momentum , like a stone rolling down a hill . |
| 3 | He was endowed , alas , with a fragile nervous system , so that the strain of it all caused a build-up of neurosis that triggered one heart attack to end his playing career and another dozen years later that ended his life . |
| 4 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 5 | I told him it was the size of it all disturbed me . |
| 6 | Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again . |
| 7 | To the south-east the morning sun was tinting the misted tops of the Macgillycuddy Reeks , and the beauty of it all reminded her again of her father 's remarks to her about Ireland and Corcaguiney on that evening when he broke the news of her betrothal . |
| 8 | A salt watchman was paid a salary of £15 per annum , while a tidesman was paid £20 , so on the face of it Main seemed to have little cause for complaint . |
| 9 | But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it . |
| 10 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 11 | And I copied it over It all compiled first time . |
| 12 | But through it all stood good old Battersea Power Station . |