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

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1 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 .
2 He lifted it and red ants scurried and bustled , pulling and pushing their torpedo-shaped eggs to safety .
3 And who would be more bitterly indignant if he risked it than young Harry himself , whose pride in his prince and jealousy of his rights had no match even among David 's own blood-kin ?
4 Aquino 's decision to press the case — and to undergo a ferocious and lengthy cross-examination — was seen by some to have needlessly exposed her already tarnished public image to further damage , whilst others applauded it as further proof of the tenacious courage which she had displayed in opposing Marcos .
5 Many scorned it but rapturous press reviews helped push the record up into the high altitudes of the independent chart .
6 It was supposed to be a big secret when we heard it but Open Systems Today must have announced it internally by now — it 's killing off its stepchild , the Santa Cruz Magazine .
7 It was supposed to be a big secret when we heard it but Open Systems Today must have announced internally by now that it 's killing off its stepchild SCO Magazine .
8 Colourist Maria tinted it and added lowlights to give a natural-looking golden colour , which also had the effect of warming up her rather drained skin tone .
9 A majority of the Congress , however , interpreted it as further evidence of the military 's lack of respect for democratic legality .
10 she rang it and this bell started going
11 It looks somewhat easier everytime I watched it but I remeber at the time Keith Macklin ( commentator ) almost having one with excitement .
12 Benzoic acid doubled it and salicylic acid increased it five-fold .
13 Yeah , we got it and another time you see , when we wer when we used to be crane drivers , when we first started crane driving , the job for a crane driver was to do anything , you were a crane driver but if your crane wanted painting you would paint it yourself , chip to paint it .
14 Yeah yeah and she 'd phone you up and see how you answered it and that sort of thing .
15 While he was trying to read one of the tail rotor struck it and anti-torque control was lost .
16 People with loadsamoney — ’ he said it as one word just to prove he had learned something living in London — ‘ buy them to play with and throw them away when they 're bored with ‘ em .
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