Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 2 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 3 | I knew it 'd all started up again . ’ |
| 4 | She took a mouthful of wine , but it came straight back up . |
| 5 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 6 | I thought I was perfectly all right , and then it chose yesterday to catch up with me again suddenly … you 've been quite right to ignore it ; it 's helped , truly . " |
| 7 | It went okay went down to four hundred people |
| 8 | After a year in which the Treasury 's forecasting failures ( notably that very large trade deficit ) have been rather obvious , it is only fair to recall that it did presciently point out just about every awkward little detail of the poll tax , from its automatic upward impact on inflation to the folly of providing local authorities with a golden opportunity to raise more tax while blaming the Government . |
| 9 | When it did finally rush out , the words , ‘ No odds , no odds , ’ came too . |
| 10 | Now it was n't really a back pass although it did actually come off of Greyson . |
| 11 | It sounded so grown up did n't it ? |
| 12 | She had kept her secret for two weeks — but today it had somehow slipped out . |
| 13 | As well as its management of the floating debt , it had increasingly taken over the handling of the service payments on the funded debt , and it held the balances of many departments of state as well as of provincial tax gatherers . |
| 14 | I should have been discharged earlier but I had developed a cold and they insisted I stay until it had completely cleared up . |
| 15 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 16 | Someone else said it had already seized up . |
| 17 | The CHC went on to point out that it had already carried out its own feasibility study on the potential for a psychiatric hospital closure in Redbridge and Waltham Forest . |
| 18 | ‘ The Geese and the Ghost ’ was quite successful once it had eventually gone out . |
| 19 | Th everybody Yeah there was noise and that but er when we got there it had normally quietened down . |
| 20 | So far chemical methods had failed to produce purification , and it had also turned out that matter precipitated from dirty water would not make fertilizer of great value . |
| 21 | It had also set out its stance in the Harare Declaration , adopted by the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) in August 1989 [ see p. 36837 ] and subsequently endorsed by the Non-aligned Movement and the UN General Assembly . |
| 22 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 23 | It had just leaped out ! |
| 24 | ’ It had just picked up the muzak . |
| 25 | At once I can see Annexe B , Summerchild 's list of possible members of the Unit , as clearly as if it had just come out of the porridge oats box . |
| 26 | At last the restoration was completed and R5868 looked as if it had just come off the production line , a fine tribute to F/L Peaple and his team . |
| 27 | The front of the jeep was as clean as if it had just come off the boat from Japan . |
| 28 | Then , when the horse is brought out of the stable , instead of just walking quietly along ( which it would if it had just come in from the paddock ) , it is jumping out of its skin , ready to spook and shy at anything , nostrils dilated , eyes bulging , and tail hoisted high . |
| 29 | When Glamorgan College of Technology , the future Polytechnic of Wales , was visited by the CNAA in 1967 , it had recently set up an Academic Board , and the visiting party felt that ‘ very belatedly the College is developing towards an academic structure ’ and towards the kind of academic independence now ‘ established for some time in most other Colleges ’ . |
| 30 | While the Midland had expected that its reserves would be lower than either Barclays or NatWest , both newly merged , it was horrified to learn that the true capital of Lloyds , a bank it had always looked down on , was £266m , £73m higher than its own . |