Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a species of conspiracy it had its persistent weakness : fear of discovery led to revolt before the compromisos were firm enough . |
| 2 | In poetry it found its perfect fulfilment ; already , his vocation was being felt . |
| 3 | She 's open-minded , and a single parent : maybe that has something to do with it and with me not having a husband it made it easier for her to come in and see me sometimes . |
| 4 | She tried to pull away , but as she moved her head it brought her closer to his mouth , and when his lips touched hers she was lost , caught up in an explosion triggered by his touch . |
| 5 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 6 | Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history . |
| 7 | The other week it cost me fifty quid to go to the , to get it tuned you know ? |
| 8 | The felling , trimming , cutting , absorbed him completely and because of the ferocity of the running chain it demanded his undivided attention . |
| 9 | Later in her life it made her impossible . |
| 10 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 11 | The Commission was supposed to be guided in its deliberations by the Nazimov Rescript , the programme adopted by the Main Committee in December 1858 , and the schemes devised by the provincial gentry committees , but the first and third of these were too conservative for its taste and in the first year of its life it gave them short shrift . |
| 12 | She would not have you informed , in case it placed your own freedom in jeopardy . |
| 13 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 14 | She was , he guessed , in her late thirties , and was uncompromisingly plain in a way it struck him few women nowadays were . |
| 15 | But , like , you know , he says the way it struck her one minute , you know , she just a mild cold and next minute , he said the next she 's so bad ! |
| 16 | She just ignored Alain 's voice and ran up the stairs to her room , ignoring the way it made her dizzy . |
| 17 | In a way it made it worse . |
| 18 | No doubt it gave him more time to enjoy his new pride and joy , a Harley Davidson , classic Hells Angels style motorcycle . |
| 19 | Last year it took them three full days to clear the stable and make a heap of the black peat-like mal outside . |
| 20 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 21 | As Willis went to the afterhatch it struck him that Dreadnought was rather low in the water , almost on a level with Grace . |
| 22 | It does come nice after Christmas , Christmas it got him all out of plonk |
| 23 | That 's only half the time it took me last time . |
| 24 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 25 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 26 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 27 | ‘ The brooch gave us the right clue — in fact it gave us two . |