Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 2 | It applied its new cash limits to approvals of local capital spending and to local grants . |
| 3 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 4 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 5 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 6 | BORLAND International said yesterday it expected its second-quarter results to beat analysts ' expectations after buoyant sales of Paradox , the US software company 's database product . |
| 7 | But when the nation was not at war the social round of the Fields was formidable Olive , it is said , eventually grew tired of Morris Grange so , in 1919 , Norman bought Lartington Hall with its 140 acres of parkland , 3 grouse moors , 3 lakes , 13 farms and most of the cottages in the village , and it became their principal residence for the rest of their lives . |
| 8 | It became her only home . |
| 9 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 10 | Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course . |
| 11 | Photography was part of the course ; he found to his delight that he had the college darkrooms mostly to himself , and it became his main focus for the four-year course . |
| 12 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 13 | The car did not normally carry passengers , but its seats were used that season by a small orchestra which played selections from ‘ The Gondoliers ’ as it made its romantic way along the Promenade . |
| 14 | PREVIOUS whisky industry wisdom had it that Whyte & Mackay , largest minority shareholder of Invergordon Distillers since it made its hostile bid , was going to wait for yesterday 's results and , if they were sufficiently poor to drive down the share price , would then pounce for the remaining 8.8 per cent of shares to give it control . |
| 15 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 16 | It made her golden shoulders quiver . |
| 17 | Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap . |
| 18 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 19 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 20 | Although the merger did not dramatically increase the main opposition party 's size , it expanded its geographical area of support beyond the PPD 's traditional south-western stronghold around Kwangju . |
| 21 | person I would n't bother anybody , and it changed my entire personality . |
| 22 | ‘ It changed my whole attitude to racing . |
| 23 | Later in Michael Ramsey 's life it disturbed his conventional critics when they found a guardian of Catholic orthodoxy saying that he hoped and expected to meet atheists in heaven . |
| 24 | Indeed , even when the Schools Council diverted its attention to the whole curriculum , in contrast to its preoccupation with individual areas or aspects , it maintained its non-recommendatory stance . |
| 25 | On Dec. 18 Bush instructed the department to reverse its decision on the grounds that it contradicted his stated intention to increase educational opportunities for minorities . |
| 26 | Essentially a single-breasted riding coat with the tails removed and the fronts considerably shortened , it retained its pronounced waist . |
| 27 | LORD JUSTICE DILLON said that it was not in doubt that if the copy was privileged in relation to the employee 's then claims because obtained for the purpose of advice in relation to those claims , it retained its privileged condition in respect of the subsequent claims now being advanced by the bank : Pearce v Foster ( 1885 ) 15 QBD 114 . |
| 28 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
| 29 | Always a big , fleshy animal , it retained its large frame when many other British cattle became fashionably short-legged and stocky in the 1940s . |
| 30 | Though Labour 's success was limited to , and by , its parliamentary approach , it used its enhanced relationship with the working classes to develop , particularly in the 1930s , policies to deal with the unemployed , fascism and the Spanish Civil War . |