Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She 'd been ashamed to find that she found it such exhausting work , especially without the broad shoulders of Ross to lean on . |
2 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
3 | Both Clive Anderson in The Sunday Times and Andro Linklater in The Spectator declared it suitable light reading for a summer holiday . |
4 | We did wonder if we would manage to find the place but we located it one wet Sunday afternoon . |
5 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
6 | Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 . |
7 | Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 . |
8 | THE Marquis continued his rich vein of form yesterday when 11/8 shot Rainbow Lake 's success at Newbury made it three winning naps in a row . |
9 | Third , though the agora certainly has a religious aspect — Kleisthenes probably purified it and banned burials there when he gave it new political importance — it also , and equally certainly , was a place where ordinary commerce was carried on , thus Demosthenes ( xviii.169 ) mentions the wicker booths set up for trading there . |
10 | On the contrary , well-rounded performances ( especially from mild-mannered Kevin Whateley of future Morse fame and lovable brick shithouse Jimmy Nail ) and gently interweaving domestic plotlines gave it much long-term potential . |
11 | ’ And Trevor just turned round and gave it this tremendous kick . |
12 | Its gentle approach and its emphasis on sensible preventive measures also gave it considerable patient appeal when compared with the more barbarous established approaches . |
13 | I wrote it one late evening , sitting at my window , looking out into the rainy darkness of autumn and at the great black bulk of the cathedral : |
14 | The English edition sold out very quickly , and rumour had it that interested parties had bought up large numbers of copies in order to minimise its impact . |
15 | Yeah granddad he had er an operation on his , he had it all fucking lamp-shade , light bulb , he 's gone |
16 | The YCL internal bulletin , Communist Youth , was replaced by the weekly Challenge ; the new paper had a popular appeal which gained it 20,000 regular subscribers within two years . |
17 | Last night the TEC held it annual public meeting at Marton Hotel and Country Club near Middlesbrough . |