Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid it went bust all of … . ’ |
| 2 | The boat was a modern German vessel with fittings so basic it looked unfinished . |
| 3 | Er I have n't unfortunately , no , but I 'm pretty sure it said two hundred pounds a week . |
| 4 | They might say How do you make sure it 'd pure ? |
| 5 | Mrs McMahon offered inadequate comfort and made bad worse by saying she was sure it looked lovely and not to be so silly . |
| 6 | However , I 'm not sure it had much choice in the matter , given that it made great efforts in the 70s and 80s to change its image from an ineffective amateur body into a responsible and professional organisation . |
| 7 | When this proved negative it seemed obvious that Crabb had drowned . |
| 8 | Her scream rang back to her in a thundering descant whose bass-line was so deep it vibrated each organ of her body and she was sick . |
| 9 | For example , in Maputo City total primary enrolment rose 26 per cent between 1984 and 1986 , whereas country-wide it fell 4 per cent . |
| 10 | We turned back to the sprawling baggage , so profuse and various it seemed organic , mushrooming in the rich compost of arrivals and departures . |
| 11 | It did n't look er odd it looked okay so that would make me a bit more confident I think a bit less self conscious . |
| 12 | I 'm sorry it took all this to get them out into the open — as far as they 've come . |
| 13 | Me and an aunt , just outside Norwich we used to go up for Sunday dinner it was very nice along the river there , and a , I thought the very nice part of cathedral , there 's a cathedral lies very low it had some very nice erm , mm , what you call it , close , is it ? |
| 14 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 15 | It was n't much , compared to Store food , but to nomes who had spent all day hungry and miserable it smelled good . |
| 16 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 17 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 18 | In particular it made certain that there could never be a repetition of the evictions that had originally brought the crofts into being . |
| 19 | The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process . |
| 20 | The battle took place on a Saturday , 14 October : because the armies were so evenly matched and the ground so difficult it lasted eight hours , a great time in a world where a decision was usually reached in just over two hours . |
| 21 | Well a tumbler is where they , the buckets used to go over the top and empty into a chute into the hopper and er went cos it was on a continual chain you see cos you had a bucket two links , a bucket two links , a bucket two links , all the way round and that 's how you used to dredge all the time round and round and round and that 's how it went over to the top tumbler cos you had a bottom tumbler on this layer and a top tumbler , otherwise you could n't dredge otherwise and that top tumbler , I am certain it had five , five sides to it because at one , at one time you 'd tip a bucket on one then you 'd get two lengths so it kept the tumbler more or less equal all the way round the wear and tear of it . |
| 22 | The smell was so bad it made some of his children sick : |
| 23 | Oh sorry erm we are expect the business this year to break even it broke even last year , erm and the reason for that is that we have expanded business very rapidly , last year we had only thirty five stores this year we 'll have fifty and we will probably have a similar sort of expansion programme for next year . |