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Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes .
2	The Wilsons however found it all a bit much and thinking their tank threatened , have moved the fish on to Blackpool 's Sealife Centre .
3	I was about ten at the time and I found it all a bit frightening .
4	Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much .
5	Sarah 's place at University is now assured along with other classmates , some of whom found it all a bit too much .
6	We never really played it all the way through .
7	Phillis played it all the time : for old times sake wo n't you give my heart a break ?
8	They breakfasted , then picked up the autobahn at Leipzig and followed it all the way to Dresden .
9	Louise enjoyed it all every bit as much as Constance .
10	Yeah yeah a good Da Dave manages Doncaster now he 's an ex manager of Walsall as well We lived at the Brown Lion at the time and er , I , I was out the front on the Saturday evening and I er manager 's just been to fetch his Sunday joint from the local butchers and he shouted across the road to his pal how have they got on , cos there was no radio in those days , and er he says they 've won two nil and the man dropped his meat in front of him and dribbled it all the way down the road , it was such excitement it was of course all people over the moon .
11	Grandma laughed and called it all a waste
12	Marc slid it off and trailed it all the way back along her inner arm as he withdrew his own .
13	The keeper saw it all the way and still could nt ge near it .
14	You only saw the f oh now oh right so , hands up who saw it all the way through and would not want to see it again as part of the seminar .
15	His sigh was heavy , though , and she felt it all the way through to her bones .
16	He had a good head for numbers , and recited it all the way down St Martin 's Lane and into Monmouth Street ; then he went in a shop for a coffee and wrote it down on one of the paper napkins .
17	Yes , ma'am , sent it all the way to Frankfurt by mistake … ’
18	You see , Tom sent it all the way from America , so I thought — ‘
19	It 's so silly is n't it when er you know that you knew it all the time .
20	She knew it all the time .
21	‘ I thought it odd an Englishman should visit Vienna at a time like this . ’
22	As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance .
23	I thought it probable the police were right , he had sought revenge against Imogen Surkov for separating him from his nice third wife , Vera , and their son .
24	He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down .
25	Three minutes before the interval Millen struck to break the deadlock and Love made it two a minute later .
26	And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic .
27	( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . )
28	What did they put in the coffee that made it such a diuretic ?
29	War Vets who were with me on the march-past on Saturday , our thanks to all those who made it possible the R.N. , the R.N.A. , the police , the Sea Cadets , the catering staff in St George 's Hall and the youth band who played such lovely tunes all afternoon .
30	M. Lheureux plies Emma with a foretaste of false comfort : he tells her consoling stories of lost dogs which have returned to their masters despite great distances ; why , there was even one that made it all the way back to Paris from Constantinople .