Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vet described it as the worse case of neglect he 'd ever seen . |
| 2 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 3 | The two owners were aged 84 and 71 and , after the chewing incident , the RSPCA swapped it for a smaller dog . |
| 4 | Duncan took out his passport and handed it to the older man , who opened it to the relevant page and stamped it with a small stamper he had with him . |
| 5 | On certain nights the mirror had a faint lustre that separated it from the deeper shadows of the corner in which it stood . |
| 6 | After the death of old Daniel , the five year lease was carried on by old Smythe who renewed it for a further term of two years though at a lower rental . |
| 7 | Now , in his wonderful aria of lamentation , he brought the whole performance to life and raised it to a higher plane of artistry . |
| 8 | and then if you needed it for the further education you could use it |
| 9 | Increasingly , the authorities became concerned about the adverse effects of this trend and viewed it in a dimmer light . |
| 10 | The whole incident had been exaggerated with talk of a threat to the institutions of government , and many saw it as a further example of the insensitivity of the Republican administration to the human sufferings of the period . |
| 11 | They gave the magic to a cripple named Birkinlig , and he took it to the lower land and in turn bestowed it upon his friends , his household . |
| 12 | Thomas unlocked it with the larger of his two keys , and taking from its sconce the last of the torches that burned along the passage , led the way through to a narrow spiral stairway , and began to descend without hesitation into the depths . |
| 13 | In other words , they created a self-image and then sold it to the greater powers of western Europe ; and whatever their reaction , be it incredulous , admiring or contemptuous , these powers now found it impossible to ignore the Scots ' insistent demands that they should be noticed . |
| 14 | The BeSHT did more ; he promoted it to a higher level of importance ; he confirmed and extended the principle of enjoyment , bringing it much more centrally in to the people 's worship as a sense of divine gladness . |
| 15 | Christopher Columbus did it with a smaller crew than Taylor has tried so far . |
| 16 | So Nissan replaced it with a snappier car , the Primera . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's like doing a jigsaw and making your own pieces up ’ , said Mrs Joel as she deftly removed a petal that was too large and replaced it with a smaller one . |
| 18 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |
| 19 | So he wanted more life cover , but he obviously on his old plan could n't sustain that to the same period of time , so he had it for a shorter period of time , the ten years , and when it dropped , he dropped down again . |
| 20 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |
| 21 | Police intercepted the Peugeot and chased it into the lower Shankill , where the gunmen jumped out . |
| 22 | But the technocratic approach did not lessen discrimination but reproduced it in a subtler form . |