Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 2 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 3 | By voting with the Government , it let Labour walk away . |
| 4 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 5 | In May , 1977 , it moved another step higher . |
| 6 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 7 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 8 | When the place was up and running , with guests in all the woodland chalets and the cafeteria open until late , it would feel safe at any hour ; and now that he was no longer alone here , it seemed that way now . |
| 9 | It faced certain doom either at the polls or at the hands of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 10 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 11 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 12 | If Euclidean space-time stretches back to infinite imaginary time , or else starts at a singularity in imaginary time , we have the same problem as in the classical theory of specifying the initial state of the universe : God may know how the universe began , but we can not give any particular reason for thinking it began one way rather than another . |
| 13 | Virgin 's determined to fight , on Thursday it began legal action here in the United States . |
| 14 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 15 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp wants us to know it shipped 13 MP-2 massively parallel machines in 1992 , calling it a ‘ faster-than-projected start-up ’ for a box introduced in October 1992 . |
| 16 | He argued that since crime , as officially recorded , was greatest amongst the working class , it followed that anomie too must be greatest in that social stratum . |
| 17 | If the air needed clearing , then our first conversation did exactly that , for it saw each man strongly protesting his innocence and strenuously denying any involvement in the murder . |
| 18 | Thus new furniture would be defective if it contained live woodworm even though the presence of the woodworm posed no threat of personal injury . |
| 19 | We must entertain doubts about Baden-Powell 's enthusiasm for Hooligans , and the extent to which it represented Edwardian wish-fulfilment rather than real accomplishment . |
| 20 | Despite the apparent decisiveness of Adenauer 's foreign policy , therefore , some have argued that there lay a fundamental ambivalence at the bottom of it , symbolised by the choice of his home town , Bonn , as the new capital : it represented Western orientation all right but , at the same time , it was very obviously only a provisional arrangement . |
| 21 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 22 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 23 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 24 | It took considerable time here for the work of the CAB to be understood but its place is now firmly established . |
| 25 | After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen . |
| 26 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 27 | The Exchequer 's secondary function was the payment of the King 's debts ; provided that the King had some money for discharging them , it performed this task efficiently but slowly . |
| 28 | It saved some bacon here and was a morale booster there — after all , it could have bee a lot worse . |
| 29 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 30 | In fact Mr Hingston found a slightly unusual account in that it had instant access so long as withdrawals were made by post . |