Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got colder each day , and rained nonstop . |
| 2 | The news was predominantly heartening , as it became plain that investigation of endothelin action is entering a new phase with characterization of the receptors concerned and the advent of selective , potent and orally active receptor antagonists . |
| 3 | He noted that when Harris sampled at weekends it found many more Tories than on weekdays . |
| 4 | I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago . |
| 5 | His voice was quite kind , but it forbade any more questions and Jinny fell silent , looking back over her shoulder as they reached the lip of the little hollow . |
| 6 | THE Alliance Party scored six of the best when it added two more councillors to its group of four on Ards Council . |
| 7 | While it served to reconcile warring elements in the Conservative party , in the other parties it prevented any such reconciliation . |
| 8 | The Bishop told clergy late last month and before Tony 's death , that it seemed likely that permission given by the Law Lords to stop feeding Tony would soon be acted upon : |
| 9 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 10 | Hence , it seemed likely that information on similarities and differences between the five Belfast communities on the one hand and Lurgan on the other could be used for a variety of theoretical purposes . |
| 11 | It was then that the Italian people began to understand what his intentions were ; and when he later referred to the need for the colonies to be protected from aggression , it seemed clear that war in Africa could not be avoided . |
| 12 | It seemed just another episode in the long war of the books between metropolitan , and in this last case global , sophistication and a rooted academic , even provincial , culture . |
| 13 | It rained all that night , but that did n't stop a visit to Aunt Marjorie 's at Wimbledon . |
| 14 | Swessex , a bastard county created by the iniquitous reorganization of local government in the early ‘ seventies , comprised one and a half old counties knocked together because it looked neater that way . |
| 15 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 16 | It formed one more effort , renewed over the next decade , to produce a book which in the end turned into another book altogether , and which Eliot published . |
| 17 | For instance , it took 14 more hours for a territory with eight songs to be re-occupied than one with only one song . |
| 18 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 19 | But it took five more years , and the Tiananmen massacre , for its residents fully to grasp their prospective vulnerability as citizens of China . |
| 20 | It took two more minutes to examine all the other bedrooms and establish that four people was the limit . |
| 21 | It took two more days for these to appear , in a lengthy convoy of ox-drawn sledges which could only move painfully slowly . |
| 22 | Finally , under the obscurity of dust and smoke the Germans managed to get a foothold on the summit , but it took three more days of bitter close combat before the vital Côte 304 was finally theirs . |
| 23 | And it converted many more economists to the liberal , anti-interventionist wing of their trade . |
| 24 | It sounded better that way . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , it sounded bad this time . |
| 26 | She was on the verge of ignoring the summons , on the reasonable assumption that the visitor had pressed the wrong buzzer , when it sounded several more times . |
| 27 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
| 28 | By 1983 it had half that number on roll . |
| 29 | But it it had last all day but |
| 30 | He really must get back to the library and see if it had any more books on the subject . |