Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 2 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 3 | Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas . |
| 4 | I watched it float in slow motion towards the ceramic shower base , which it cracked neatly in two . |
| 5 | Veblen saw it developing in late twentieth century America . |
| 6 | It was like a rubbish dump , and yet there 's good old erm , grounds man , as soon as the had gone , they were down there , there was half a dozen of them and they got it cleaned in two days . |
| 7 | Did it relate in some way to the fact that millions of years ago our gill-bearing ancestors crawled out of the pond , and ever since we have been paralysed by the thought of a return to it ? |
| 8 | Everyone within earshot was listening , eyes concentrated on mine , heads bent forward — but what did it matter in this little world of shadows where all barriers were down . |
| 9 | What did it say in those notes ? |
| 10 | A company working in the Distributed Computing Environment arena got hold of version 1.0.1 last week and had it installed in seven hours , which we take to be an improvement over the initial 1.0 version described by it as ‘ a nightmare ’ that ‘ could n't be used ’ because it was so buggy . |
| 11 | If you wanted it done in three hours ? |
| 12 | Erm how many men would we need if we wanted it built in four hours . |