Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pamela had joined the youth club and found it enjoyable . |
| 2 | She closed the door ; she was going to close it completely , but she changed her mind and left it open a few inches . |
| 3 | After all those years in Paris he found the bright sunshine and the sparkling translucence of the air disturbed his concentration and made it difficult for him to work . |
| 4 | Jim reached into her mouth and prised it open enough to pull the tongue forward . |
| 5 | Thus , Worrall and Pease ( 1996 : 196 ) , examining the steep rise in prison numbers in 1985 , found that the most plausible , if speculative explanation was that ‘ a general penal climate in Great Britain has permeated sentencing practice and made it harsher ’ . |
| 6 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 7 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 8 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 9 | My father was friendly enough but too obviously confident of his powers : if other parents complained to him about me or my brother , he always took our side and made it clear that he would roll up his sleeves and take on anyone who laid a finger on us . |
| 10 | So I brought it to Gary Brawer , the San Francisco luthier who does a lot of my setup work and he filled it up — took out the springs and the bar and filled it all up with ash and we put in a regular DiMarzio stop tailpiece , with through-the-body strings . |
| 11 | We went out into New York City and staggered here and there through the Village and drooled it all out in bar after bar . |
| 12 | In so far as Freud thought he had done psychology as a natural science , he has been vulnerable to critics within psychology who have applied natural scientific criteria to his work and found it wanting . |
| 13 | Bawden loved his own work and found it soothing to live surrounded by it . |
| 14 | They have put it to the test and found it true . |
| 15 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 16 | He walked to the small , single window and pushed it open , gazing up and outward into the night , at the friends he could never meet . |
| 17 | He crossed to the french window and pushed it open . |
| 18 | Angrily she tore her hand away from Rune 's clasp and slammed it palm-down on the table . |
| 19 | He picked up the file that lay on the desk and flipped it open . |
| 20 | The rainwater washed away the topsoil and made it difficult to replant trees . |
| 21 | I got my hand on his jaw and forced it open . |
| 22 | Using Wella 's High Hair Form & Finish Spray for extra hold , he pinned the hair and brushed it flat for a sophisticated Sixties style . |
| 23 | She pulled the leather clasp from her hair and shook it free in a whirl of golden brown . |
| 24 | Maggie asked breathlessly , sitting wide-eyed and making no move to stop him when his hands went to her hair and pulled it free of the restraining band . |
| 25 | The honey was fermenting but she chewed up the nut and swallowed it avidly ; then , encouraged by Tom , she dipped her finger in the honey and licked it clean . |
| 26 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 27 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |
| 28 | She knew the long list of silver almost by heart and counted it monthly that nothing might go astray . |
| 29 | Her owner died , and she was living rough , so when she bounced into our kitchen and made it clear that that was where she wanted to stay in it was hard to turn her out , even though Fizzy finds a young and very playful cat rather a trial . |
| 30 | Storming over to the table , she snatched up her briefcase and flicked it open . |