Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One moment there was glass , and the next there were bits of glass , drifting out like a jigsaw puzzle where every piece had suddenly decided it wanted some personal space . |
| 2 | He spoke perfect English , so perfect it sounded wrong . |
| 3 | In the future it would earn a lot of laughs , but Rain did not think it deserved any yet . |
| 4 | Even when an expensive filtration plant was finally installed it proved inadequate . |
| 5 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 6 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 7 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 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 | And if Barbara Coleman had not known it appeared unlikely that Sabine Jourdain had . |
| 10 | Personally , from the point of view of nature conservancy , I 'd rather see it left unspoiled . ’ |
| 11 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 12 | Yet once created it proved impossible to remove and difficult to reform . |
| 13 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 14 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 15 | ‘ I have n't heard it called that before . ’ |
| 16 | This is the family home and my mother did n't want it left empty . |
| 17 | We do n't want it made worse by the use of your handkerchief . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 19 | No I do n't think it 'd be , do n't think it meant that , I thought we went , to could be two , we 're going to have another one . |
| 20 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 21 | ‘ In the end , I do n't suppose it made all that much difference , ’ Mr Corfe admitted . |
| 22 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 23 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 24 | It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia . |
| 25 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 26 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |