Example sentences of "[v-ing] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 2 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 3 | In passing it gave much diverting information . |
| 4 | As the blue coronet of flame reached upwards , her hands guarding it looked transparent . |
| 5 | Effectively I suppose , what the best thing to do is to check the T G I manual against the , against the erm ad-hoc procedure and providing it covered all the things which are in the ad-hoc procedure , it should be okay . |
| 6 | The Open Software Foundation has been quoted in the US press as saying it shipped 85,000 binary versions of OSF/1 to developers and users last year . |
| 7 | In his conference speech Mr Fowler attacked Labour 's reviewed industrial relations policy , saying it had one aim : to make strikes easier . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying it had such a positive effect on his career but it caused a lot of attention which he did n't buckle under , and I do feel a lot of people could n't have lived through that experience , but he did . |
| 9 | HDS declined to specify its installed X-terminal base , saying it had 200,000 units in the field , most of them serial terminals . |
| 10 | Home Secretary David Waddington has been speaking of his sense of outrage at Saturday 's Trafalgar Square riots saying it brought some of the most ferocious violence ever seen on to the streets of London . |
| 11 | The only trouble was that under questioning it became clear that one of his central aims was to abolish mortgage tax relief . |
| 12 | Planting it outside the backdoor was a sure way of keeping witches out of the house , and it was thought never to be struck by lightning ; cutting it brought bad luck , and traditionally it was the wood the Cross of Calvary . |
| 13 | Tory Darlington councillor Peter Jones hit out at the show after hearing it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic , and a simulated sex act . |
| 14 | It 's a well set out machine and using it became second nature after just a couple of hours . |
| 15 | But over the same time the proportion of women in professional families using it remained steady . |
| 16 | It was not long before a cheaper method of making it became possible . |
| 17 | With the threat of bombing it seemed sensible for Mrs Daly to go to stay with a widowed friend in Rainford , and she seemed to have settled there very happily . |
| 18 | Exactly why she should be so wary of further contact she did not know , but avoiding it seemed prudent . |
| 19 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 20 | Leonora listened wistfully as she toyed with her sandwich , thinking it sounded idyllic , and a great waste for one man on his own . |
| 21 | As I understand it , MacAlpine is likely to withdraw the planning application for limited working it made last year and concentrate on pursuing its Interim Development Order application with Dyfed County Council . |
| 22 | But I 'd had no sleep and I was feeling it got worse . |