Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 3 | Perhaps in a way it was more justifiable in the special case of Grand Prix where it echoed the multiple TV-screen images of which the director , John Frankenheimer , is so fond — perhaps nostalgia for his early days as a director of live TV drama . |
| 4 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 5 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 6 | He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep . |
| 7 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 8 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 9 | Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ? |
| 10 | The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles . |
| 11 | The new church , although it incorporated the old church of San Satiro , was named for the Madonna , which explains why the new church is renown as Santa Maria presso San Satiro , the church of St Mary near St Satiro . |
| 12 | But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more . |
| 14 | Although it harboured the worst sort of poverty , inequality and exploitation during the 1930s and 1940s , not least because its bright lights attracted millions from the surrounding countryside , it seethed with exuberant life and economic activity . |
| 15 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 16 | In the 1989 general election , Congress ( I ) lost its majority , although it remained the largest single party in the Lok Sabha [ see pp. 37030-31 ] . |
| 17 | It looked tidier , neater than it had the previous day . |
| 18 | No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate . |
| 19 | Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement . |
| 20 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 21 | It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards . |
| 22 | It was upwind of the volcano , so it escaped the worst of the thick ash-fall that Pompeii experienced , and almost all the population seem to have escaped unharmed — not more than thirty skeletons have been found . |
| 23 | ACET an claim repayment of £250 so it received the full £1,000 . |
| 24 | The Reformation Parliament of 1529 to 1536 attacked the ‘ privileges of Rome ’ and its jurisdiction of the Church , so it recognised the new marriage of the King to Anne Boleyn , in January 1533 . |
| 25 | But , of course , as the patient 's immune system recovered and rejected the cancer so it rejected the transplanted organ leaving the patient with no option but to return to dialysis . |
| 26 | It is thought that previously matured vitrinite would begin to undergo maturation again once it reached the maximum temperature to which it had been originally exposed . |
| 27 | Today , it is the location of the Faculty of Law and of the Europa Institute , and is the centre of University administration ; once it housed the whole University . |
| 28 | The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic . |
| 29 | Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion . |
| 30 | Like a forest fire , it started from the individual and grew outwards until it enveloped the whole area of monastic patrons and friends and dependants . |