Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Tony caught it all on film . |
2 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
3 | Yeremi snatched it clear of the firing handle . |
4 | Eva reported it all as a matter of fact . |
5 | That 's right , made a cup of coffee and that and then , he was , just came back and she said you have n't finished , he said yes , she said I did n't hear you knocking , oh no he said , well I built it all , you know , it 's all ready made and I built it ready for the bolts and , oh I thought you would of been knocking , I 've got some knocking here you know |
6 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
7 | The lid stopped it all from falling out when you tipped it over and the air is getting in around the cracks in the lid . |
8 | it stopped it dead in its track , yeah , could n't get to rewire it after it though it snapped it a little bit . |
9 | He slit it open with his finger , and glanced at it . |
10 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
11 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
12 | She guessed he found it intriguing to be able to talk about his consuming interest in the sport with a girl who not only knew what he was talking about , but could actually offer opinions that were interesting . |
13 | So we put a , as a rider on , that it had already passed the rider it says there , but we found it unacceptable at P A G. |
14 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
15 | More came welling and flooding under the door , so that I suddenly found it all about my ankles . |
16 | We found it one of the simplest to use because of the trigger action and the compact shape . |
17 | All found it one of the hardest forms of market intervention . |
18 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
19 | I had no connections with the bigwigs of the movie capital so I found it impossible as a stranger to make the right contacts among publicity agents at the various studio lots , and to meet the stars . |
20 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
21 | She not only got pregnant but also found it impossible to further her career in the Tory party . |
22 | But Cohn-Casson also found it impossible to side uncritically with Jews , because to do so would deny modern thinking , by placing tribal loyalties above the mandates of science . |
23 | Try as she might , Kate found it impossible to be completely unaware of the sexual magnetism of the man . |
24 | The buyer found it unsuitable for making into dresses . |
25 | Pursued there and besieged , they fled by night to raise a loyal army , but found it pitiful in numbers . |
26 | He could not remember how long it was since-his wife had leaned on him , and he found it pleasant to be the one in charge of the situation . |
27 | Although law reform was at hand , the government found it politic in 1977 to set up a Home Office Committee on Obscenity , Indecency , Violence and Film Censorship under the Chairmanship of the Cambridge Professor of Philosophy , Bernard Williams . |
28 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
29 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
30 | In Abbel Mr Justice found it appropriate for the plaintiff quote , to recompense his parents up to the commercial rate for one full time carer , unquote . |