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Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 .