Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
| 2 | So he stopped and then it fell , and it fell short of the hundred pound they wanted . |
| 3 | He named it Stegman ( a steg is a male goose ) and it spent most of the summer on the reservoir but always wintered at West Birk Hatt . |
| 4 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 5 | The very corpses were thought to be contagious ; in some parishes attempts were made to prevent their burial in consecrated ground , and it became necessary for the parson to conduct the service under cover of darkness . |
| 6 | Her previous recording with Sir Charles Groves featured Crusell 's Second Concerto , in which she was partnered by the English Chamber Orchestra , and it became evident from our conversation that she had been especially happy to work with Sir Charles once again , in this new recording of English music for clarinet and orchestra . |
| 7 | After that many Republican law-makers felt compelled to go along with it — and it became harder for critics to attack the reforms as ‘ socialised medicine ’ . |
| 8 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 9 | Wilson would talk at great length and it became clear to me that the number of people in whom he could confide safely was very small ; in fact it was clear that he had few , if any , complete political friends . |
| 10 | Her shoulders sagged in defeat and it became clear to the watching man that she accepted their veracity . |
| 11 | Faith and I also flew around the pattern and it felt great despite small problems with the tape out on the aircraft to protect the patches stitched on in Bangkok . |
| 12 | ‘ It was warm and personal and it felt right for him , ’ says Marie . |
| 13 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 14 | I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code . |
| 15 | They made their way across to the heavy door and it swung open at their touch . |
| 16 | There was a great measure of bounce in Peter Marron 's pitch , and it lasted most of the match . |
| 17 | Allison would respond by becoming moody and it soured many of the sessions . |
| 18 | She leant her painted face back to look at the two men standing at the sideboard , and it said much for George Banks who , turning to the old lady , said , ‘ I feel you would always be welcome in whatever company you choose , ma'am . ’ |
| 19 | It has to do partly with the feeling , particularly powerful in the 19th century , that the proper role of education , at least at the top end , was to equip gentlemen to run the Empire ; and it seemed reasonable at the time to concentrate not upon mechanics , but upon grand ideals , and the classics were studied as if they were a form of theology , a way of revealing fundamental and lasting human truths This , perhaps , is why anti-science is strongest in Britain , because we took Empire most seriously . |
| 20 | Modernism was played out , and it seemed absurd on all sorts of grounds that there should be no contemporary equivalent to The Faerie Queene or Trollope 's Barchester novels . |
| 21 | Their mother had warned them to beg for forgiveness when their turn came to pray to their great-grandfather 's spirit before the altar , and it seemed certain to Lan 's ten-year-old mind that if she and her brothers had angered their father so deeply they must also have offended the spirits of their illustrious ancestors too . |
| 22 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 23 | After a long hot journey we had not paid much attention to our surroundings and it seemed unbelievable to be in Germany at last . |
| 24 | The UWC was a far more serious threat than the UBC had been : it was entirely outside the control of the party leaders and backed by over a hundred MPs ; it was aimed at a government that included Unionists as well as Liberals ; and it seemed likely to be a vehicle for the overthrow of Bonar Law by Carson . |
| 25 | ‘ 'Er ’ was apparently Rose 's ma , and it seemed likely from Rose 's hints and sniffs that all the children had different dads , which , looking at Ma Bailey , fat , defeated and unlovely , Sally-Anne found difficult to believe . |
| 26 | For reasons best known to themselves , they attached great importance to the idiot 's efforts to fill his useless bath ( I think it was B ) and it seemed vital to their purpose that I too become involved with the whole farcical business and , what 's more , come up with some sort of an answer . |
| 27 | I already have an estimate from Woodlands Incorporated and it seemed satisfactory to me . " |
| 28 | I wanted to meet Marius Durance — I 've always especially admired his work and it seemed crazy to be so close and not come face to face with him . |
| 29 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 30 | The figure 's breathing was harsh and uneven now and it seemed incapable of further movement . |