Example sentences of "it [subord] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally it might be argued that since withdrawal from NATO was the last card he could play in his campaign against American influence , short of defecting from the West altogether , there were good reasons not to play it until it seemed likely to be effective or became absolutely necessary . |
| 2 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 3 | I only got it cos it looked nice . |
| 4 | Jinny remembered seeing it and slipping past it because it looked complicated and she was tired . |
| 5 | Using the Temple as a short cut was also forbidden by Jewish Law and yet the priests turned a blind eye to it because it brought more trade into the Temple . |
| 6 | ‘ I remember it because it had grey military markings , ’ added Duncan . |
| 7 | ‘ She started dancing around and we did it because it felt right . ’ |
| 8 | She kept hold of his arm and shook it till it became elastic and extended out of its socket like a conjuror 's string of handkerchiefs . |
| 9 | This was an old carriage , but still well capable of performing the task set for it when it had first joined the rolling-stock in the year that Holly had been born . |
| 10 | Men down the hole steadied it as it became horizontal and was heaved on to the shoulders of the men , about 150 in all . |
| 11 | A fist flew towards him on the screen , filled it as it made apparent impact and then vanished away . |
| 12 | She heard a car go up the road and then still heard it as it travelled some way along the road at the top , and realised the wind must be coming from the south for the sound to come to her so distinctly . |