Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |
| 2 | In fact if we 'd done it the proper way you 'd of had |
| 3 | mm , like every thing else you told me you 'd finished it the other day |
| 4 | Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died . |
| 5 | By the time I had heard it a fifth time , one of football 's most respected managers stood accused of everything from gross indecency to impotence . |
| 6 | He had heard it the first time as a child , in his grandfather 's yurt on the Khirgiz , and going to Burun 's quarters had found him awake also . |
| 7 | But the experience had been short and isolated and the moonlight had given it a sufficient touch of unreality for me to be able to fire my machine gun at everything I saw without scruple . |
| 8 | In her memory it was too bleak , too desolate , and that had given it an added power . |
| 9 | It had been Great-Aunt Alicia who had considered it a marvellous and exciting opportunity and persuaded her to accept it . |
| 10 | Even as a wee boy I had considered it an unfair exchange . |
| 11 | He had said it a hundred times over the past blissful hour together , and each time the sound of it had been even sweeter . |
| 12 | She knew what Papa would say because he had said it a few years ago when she had begun to reproach him and all men for their oppression of women . |
| 13 | Ever since the aborted rebel Wallaby tour to South Africa in 1987 , French had made it a personal goal to see the Springboks return to the international stage . |
| 14 | The world shortage and price rises had made it a rare delicacy for ordinary citizens , but David Laing liked to sip and swig constantly . |
| 15 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 16 | He had felt it the greatest lunacy to dispatch men to crowded city parishes with nothing more sustaining than goodwill , a knowledge of the learned tongues and an unrefined familiarity with the Bible . |
| 17 | In return , I described my discovery of Weimar 's system for naming streets when I had visited it a few years earlier . |
| 18 | She had thought it a foolproof notion , but had slipped up on detail , like so many . |
| 19 | They had patronised it the previous night , taking to heart its motto ( in Latin ) , ‘ drink yourself to hell ’ . |
| 20 | He must have been trying to hide the feelings that the sight of Rocamar conjured up , for he himself had dubbed it a romantic dream — and the dream had failed . |
| 21 | The soldiers had found it a long and tiring period . |
| 22 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
| 23 | The only previous controlled trial of social work help for depression ( Corney , 1981 ) had found it no better than treatment-as-usual from the GP . |
| 24 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 25 | The next morning we walked up the glacier and did a lengthy rock scramble , the Trifthorn ( 3,728 metres ) , partly to acclimatise , and partly because Martin had tried it a few years earlier and failed to reach the top . |
| 26 | The French press noted that the Mauritanian government 's pro-Iraqi alignment during the Gulf war had lost it the financial support of certain Gulf states , leaving it more dependent on French aid . |