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

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1 She let it in , fed it well , took it to the vet : the animal plumped up and out : it lost its dinginess , it all but glowed orange in the dark .
2 It all but sunk Pompey and put United on the crest of the wave .
3 What was it exactly that made Masailand such a pleasant place for members of the British Colonial Service to be ?
4 The shark , which attacked the man as he swam in a bay north of Sydney on his honeymoon , rammed the fishing boat that netted it yesterday and disgorged John Ford was grabbed by the 16ft shark as he was diving east of Byron Bay , 370 miles north of Sydney , police said .
5 Harald felt it too and held Carl 's hand with his own .
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