Example sentences of "[vb base] it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
2 | With the black , you know it had the black bit as well |
3 | Yes I suppose it sounded the same to me . |
4 | One of them was at Muirfield in 1972 , and I believe it turned the Open for us . |
5 | I was really knocked out by your article on Philip Glass and I think it contained the best description of Glass ' music I have ever read . |
6 | The EVA wedge at the heel gives good shock absorption , but I wish it travelled the whole length of the boot as I find the balls of my feet get sore after a long day on the hill . |
7 | English , by contrast , has developed a different kind of gender ( I say ‘ has developed ’ because in its earliest form it had the Germanic three-way grammatical classification ) . |
8 | As he pulled it slowly free it caught the weak January sunshine and Tippy strained against the bonds that held her . |