Example sentences of "[verb] it [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you know it twenty to six we played that for about two hours was it ? |
| 2 | Sally tried to talk to the boy 's mother , but she dismissed it all as harmless pranks . |
| 3 | This success also gave City their first League double of the season , but it was a little ironical that in a game where the respective goalkeepers played a prominent part in keeping it goalless for 70 minutes , an error by the Halesowen custodian should have produced the match winning goal . |
| 4 | Rather , the tradition includes and is aware of its primitive origins : this reminds the tradition of its vulnerability and need to look for higher guidance , while keeping it aware of crude root emotions which can not be avoided . |
| 5 | The UK supplier , Ambrit Ltd ( tel : 0442 866294 ) ships it complete with 12-page User 's Guide and Limited Unwarranty : ‘ We do offer a 90-minute warranty . |
| 6 | Having discovered which it is , say it up-to-time at normal speed . |
| 7 | He bore it all with bright spirits and was never anything less than an exemplary prisoner . |
| 8 | Harrington at once leapt into a slit trench in great haste , only to find it full of barbed wire which inflicted severe lacerations on him . |
| 9 | I 'm basing it all on past experience . |
| 10 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 11 | Organisers said the display was amusing but warned that some people might consider it unsuitable for young children . |
| 12 | These workers have designed primers to the organism , and found it present in extraintestinal tissue from unrelated cases of Whipple 's disease . |
| 13 | Like Sarah he found it strange at first having to change roles from competitor to coach . |
| 14 | I found it unbelievable at that time that boys would genuinely want to ask me out and found me attractive . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Invaluable experience , of course , but I found it frustrating in that , so often , I was n't able to see cases right through . ’ |
| 17 | Brombach confesses he gulped when he found it necessary in 1983 to invest 45 million marks to make a quantum leap to a capacity of a million hectolitres , at a new brewery on the edge of town . |
| 18 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 19 | Because the development officer in Ipswich was not able to see these institutionalised clients in their own homes she understandably found it hard in many cases to say whether or not she agreed with the decision that they should not return home . |
| 20 | She says , ‘ I found it difficult at first having to relinquish the coaching responsibilities , but it was great working with Rob . |
| 21 | Celia hoped they were still loyal enough to be decently enthusiastic , even if they found it difficult at first to appreciate the new subtlety of Yorick 's music . |
| 22 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew all about calories , but I really enjoyed food and found it difficult to lost weight ! |
| 24 | For obvious reasons , many of the Dutch settlers in Cape Town found it expedient under English rule to become anglicized , although those who had moved inland maintained their national identity . |
| 25 | In his tract justifying the activities of the Commons in the Parliament of 1701 , when the Tories had made a number of attacks on the policies of the Court Whigs , culminating in the attempted impeachment of some of the Junto Lords , the High Anglican Tory , James Drake , found it plausible in one place to quote Algernon Sidney in support of his argument about the rights of the lower House ; the tract as a whole , however , makes it clear that Drake can in no way be considered a convert to Sidney 's particular brand of radical Whiggery . |
| 26 | Again , in a frenzied blur of storm-driven wind , ice-cold rain , glass and splintered wood , Cardiff was suddenly at that door now , tearing it open with one gloved hand while he pushed Jimmy and the girl through into the darkness . |
| 27 | It is safe unless you have a horse that needs it soft like Soft Day , ’ Meade said . |
| 28 | See we 've done it all without decimal point on the calculator , and we never done . |
| 29 | And Rital , whose east European eyes had seen been and done it all for more of a century than she chose to admit , merely shrugged and locked the door . |
| 30 | Put it all in one bi big pile . |