Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sound of the water faded , there were only the two of them locked in this tiny space , and suddenly it became difficult to breathe . |
| 2 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 3 | So it felt obliged to withdraw the invitation . |
| 4 | So it seemed sensible to move into this area , take advantage of that for ourselves , and provide them with a better service . |
| 5 | All too soon it became politic to think about returning Tony 's toy to its rightful owner . |
| 6 | But this enthusiasm swiftly evaporated and soon it became difficult to find anyone who was satisfied with it , let alone enthusiastic . |
| 7 | Well that weight , that weight it 's just it felt comfortable to wear . |
| 8 | Somehow it seemed easier to dress while Guy was absent . |
| 9 | Somehow it seemed silly to knock . |
| 10 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |
| 11 | It took three quarters of an hour to get it out and meanwhile it did some damage . |
| 12 | Gradually it became possible to stop her for a few seconds , and then to ask her to start walking again before her anxiety rose and she reared . |
| 13 | Almost at once it swung open to let out a surge of laughter and music as a tall dark man with a scar on one cheek clapped Penry on the back and introduced himself to Leonora as Nick Wood , then beckoned to a tall , beautiful woman with a mane of ash-blonde hair , who excused herself from a group of people to come running to throw her arms round Penry 's neck . |
| 14 | Their eyes met , and all at once it seemed hard to breathe . |
| 15 | The report of this inquiry found that some ill-treatment of patients had indeed taken place but also it found much to criticize in general : lax standards of nursing , inadequate medical care , poor conditions and bad management . |
| 16 | Years later it seemed reasonable to identify the ghost train with nearby trains on well concealed tracks linking Dalton-in-Furness with Askam-in-Furness and Barrow-in-Furness respectively , but this explanation did not entirely remove the doubts and fears experienced even in retrospect . |
| 17 | Having got so far it seemed appropriate to have a word with Tom yesterday , if not a glass of champagne . |
| 18 | Tiller 's theatrical enterprises were expanding so fast it became inconvenient to use his warehouse during the evenings and at weekends , so he took over part of St James 's Hall in Oxford Street , Manchester , adjoining the St James 's Theatre . |
| 19 | Eventually it became necessary to create a further simple , numeric identifier for use in accessing information relating to specific posts . |
| 20 | If eventually it became possible to access most of the major manufacturing and mining regions , that was a secondary , although welcome development , not a primary intent . |
| 21 | I perfected the technique of entering my bedsit without anyone hearing me or noticing me , but eventually it became impossible to stay there ad infinitum without paying my rent , so I took all my military kit and some clothes and set myself up in the changing room at the barracks . |
| 22 | Then it seemed unkind to leave Daisy out , so she was invited too . |
| 23 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 24 | A comparative nothing' of a life , you might think ; and yet it did more to convince me that it was not my imagination at work than all the finery of a court lady could have done . |
| 25 | It was n't performance-intensive enough for Silicon Grahpics Inc , but included stuff like multi-processor support that was completely unimportant in a mainstream Intel competitor , but yet it remained hard to design and debug . |
| 26 | Once again it proved possible to aggregate the responses into the same six categories , a comparison with Tables 4.5 and 5.4 shows that the use of response categories by subjects has remained remarkably constant throughout the three recognition experiments . |
| 27 | Accordingly it became normal to try to survey erosion terraces and their associated features in the field and this type of investigation illustrates well the desirability of fitting the punishment to the crime , or more prosaically reaching a compromise between accuracy and amount of data . |
| 28 | Previously it charged all operating costs , including those related to the management of investments , to revenue account . |
| 29 | But , more recently it became necessary to introduce an improved system based more fully on microelectronics . |
| 30 | Certainly it became economic to pay recording artists large fees ; and without mass-production , few recordings of top artists would survive in playable form today . |