Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know how time passed , or how long it took the wild shrill crying to fade back into the sky ; but at last there was just the sound of the rain and the wind . |
| 2 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 3 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 4 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 5 | Well and so it split the Labour Party and the from er at that time you know we got five hundred members in with the Labour Party . |
| 6 | In doing so it used the temporary 1951–3 increase in employment of older workers rather than the wider post-war trend to earlier retirement . |
| 7 | And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality . |
| 8 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 9 | Thus it spread the Labour gospel of women as mothers . |
| 10 | Rachel was about to protest — this sounded like dangerous ground — but somehow it seemed the lesser of two evils and as she turned the key in the ignition she felt a flutter of excitement and she knew , deep down , that she wanted to go with him . |
| 11 | A square block of flats was almost finished ; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper . |
| 12 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 13 | Qualitatively it lacked the professional touch , and within individual libraries it lacked planning and co-ordination . |
| 14 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
| 15 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 16 | On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement . |
| 17 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 18 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 19 | Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention . |
| 20 | Originally it gave the same reading as the theatre score ; Purcell made the alteration in order to bring it into line with the printed version . |
| 21 | And we were standing on the end of the house and I thought I had nothing to tie that down with but there were concrete blocks there I had a pile of those in the corner and well it took the whole blooming thing . |
| 22 | yes well it did the other week |
| 23 | Here it played the same role . |
| 24 | The report was by no means as radical as that of Tudor Walters a quarter of a century earlier ; rather it confirmed the pre-war ideal , emphasizing the virtues of family life and the design of houses most likely to foster those virtues ( Bullock , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | From the UK 's viewpoint , the time was right in 1949 as by then it had the productive capacity to take advantage of the added price competitiveness in dollar markets which devaluation would provide , while needing to rely less heavily on imports from those areas . |
| 26 | Yeah but then it split the bloody pairs all in bits . |
| 27 | Then it became the only way to work : shut mother out , shut out her demands , her outrages , concentrate , work . |
| 28 | For a moment the android was perfectly still , then it gave the slightest nod . |
| 29 | But at least it gave the 13 septuagenarian members of Vietnam 's ruling Politburo , most of them groomed by Ho , another chance to contemplate their uniqueness . |
| 30 | As darkness fell there was hardly a soul about , but just before 9pm it seemed the whole village poured out into the street , and there appeared two men carrying shoulder-high the most grotesque straw figure of a man , its eyes glowing in the darkness from torch bulbs hidden in its head . |