Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mansell , who 's got his season off to a better start than anyone in history , described it as the happiest day of his life , but was first to acknowledge all the hard graft back in Didcot that made it possible . |
| 32 | Participants in the plenum described it as the stormiest in Gorbachev 's six years as party leader . |
| 33 | One Bank of England official described it as the biggest scandal since the South Sea Bubble . |
| 34 | WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green . |
| 35 | ‘ She caught it at the public baths , ’ said his mum , with another one of her sniggers . |
| 36 | Louis pushed his plate away from him , took the chop bone and tossed it to the springer who caught it with a single sharp snap . |
| 37 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 38 | She dismissed it with a regal gesture . |
| 39 | He dismissed it with a faint , scornful laugh as he moved towards the door . |
| 40 | When Columbus spotted the crop that was to become the chief source of Virginia 's prosperity , tobacco , he dismissed it as a worthless weed ; he did , on the other hand , find time to remark on the beauty of the nightingales in a country where none exists . |
| 41 | The Palace dismissed it as a fake , but within 24 hours Royal officials appeared to add weight to its authenticity by failing to reject it outright as a hoax . |
| 42 | The Chinese also evaluated Microsoft Corp Windows NT but dismissed it as an incomplete and immature platform . |
| 43 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 44 | The court heard Pinnell , now of Halsway Cottage , Crowcombe , Taunton , Somerset , had taken the car on several occasions but on the last one crashed it into a dry stone wall . |
| 45 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 46 | In Germany the privilege of driving it was handed to Mario Andretti who crashed it on the first lap . |
| 47 | A return to Cornwall after seven years eventually opened the way to a conversion in which Bray 's family past reasserted itself against his recent deviations , and , without transforming his personality , reinforced it against the mental weaknesses to which his sister succumbed . |
| 48 | Postine subdued it with a single blow to its long wrinkled neck . |
| 49 | So we referred it to the confed and er we had the officers down and the matter was resolved and we got our increase and it was acceptable by everybody . |
| 50 | President Arpad Göncz , himself imprisoned for six years for joining the 1956 uprising , had refused to sign the bill and referred it to the Constitutional Court , whose unanimous ruling described the law as " vague , ambiguous and unreliable " . |
| 51 | The question raised by the Law Lords on the Circuit who referred it to the High Court was whether despite being deaf and dumb and uneducated , did the defendant know the difference between right and wrong , did she know that a consequence of guilt was punishment , and did she have the power of communicating her thoughts ? |
| 52 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 53 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 54 | So I moved it to the other side of the step . |
| 55 | Phosphatidylethanolamine shifted most of the cholesterol to the vesicular phase while phosphatidylserine moved it to the non-vesicular fraction . |
| 56 | Erm I would imagine Tukuse that the the difference that you put in difference that you would get between the reportage , to use a French expression , of Princess Diana 's abdication from public life was probably quite pronounced between say for example the Sun newspaper and the Independent newspaper I would imagine that the Independent newspaper probably did n't play in any great significance , it was probably on the front page , perhaps not with a picture but erm there was a couple of columns of report erm the Independent is famous as being the newspaper which when Prince Charles and Lady Diana got married many years ago , they reported it with a single paragraph saying Prince Charles and Diana , the whole world went made at the Royal Wedding and the Independent had one paragraph , which many people , including myself , said right on . |
| 57 | They reported it as a negligent discharge during a change of the guard . |
| 58 | In both cases the RapidCad exhibited full IEEE compliance even though the Cyrix test program reported it as a 486 ! . |
| 59 | The press reported it as a big accident . |
| 60 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |