Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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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 The British foreign office also showed itself more forward-looking than almost any other in the adoption of the typewriter : it appointed its first typist in 1889 and had eight by 1900 .
8 The actual administration of the National Union was separated from Central Office in 1921 , and it appointed its own secretary thereafter ; it was a change of no great importance , for the National Union continued to work from Central Office and the Principal Agent continued to be Honorary Secretary , but it was a minor declaration of independence .
9 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 .
10 It became her only home .
11 But you had to win it twice before it became your own property .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion .
16 Last week it admitted its 400th member , the Swedish-owned United Securities Fondkommission , the first time that level has been reached in its 300-year history .
17 It made its first journey in 1883 but by the 1960s had been run down to an ordinary train .
18 It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon .
19 As expected , AST formally announced its Manhattan SMP multi-processor PC' ( UX No 398 , 377 ) — it made its first appearance at CeBit in Hannover this spring .
20 It made its first flight in July , shortly after this photo was taken .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 It made its own terms , and the best you could hope for was it would n't happen the way it had happened to Mary Moxton at the Turk 's Head .
24 it made its last appearance at Watkins Glen — a reluctant Andretti again at the wheel — and failed to shine even in the wet conditions of practice .
25 It made her golden shoulders quiver .
26 Whichever it was the emotion was so strong it made her attempted flirtation with Nahum Morey seem cheap .
27 The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel .
28 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 .
29 So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too .
30 With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner .
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