Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] " 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 | It does come nice after Christmas , Christmas it got him all out of plonk |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Electronic Retailing Systems International Inc , Wilton , Connecticut developer and marketer of electronic shelf labelling systems , reports that it got its initial public offering of 1.6m shares , 1.3m of them new , away at $13 a share . |
| 7 | ( E.g. if fine-class phonemic descriptions unambiguously described spoken utterances , it would still be pointless to use them if it took the processor weeks to find them in the acoustic input and half the time it got them wrong . ) |
| 8 | In fact it got me some funny looks because I was reading Today 's Horse on the tube and could n't help laughing out loud ! |
| 9 | Though a draft directive has been circulating since 1984 it passed its final stages rapidly . |
| 10 | Surprisingly , it passed him fit for operations . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The mist was the trouble — it shrouded everything half a dozen yards away . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It became her only home . |
| 17 | But you had to win it twice before it became your own property . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Early on , it sold its 21 per cent holding in ATV . |
| 22 | She had taken in the grey dress so that it hugged her thin body more closely , but that was her sole concession to fashion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But now I suppose he had nothing to win , nothing to lose , and it made everything easier . |
| 25 | I noticed Nick Faldo was pulling a trolley and it made me curious . |
| 26 | It made me anxious , focusing on my physical self , keeping a certain shape . ’ |
| 27 | I mean , I felt that , it made me worse as well , by going to them and I decided that I would never go back to them again , you know . |
| 28 | It made me uncomfortable , but I found that I grew more confident . |
| 29 | It made me sterile . ’ |
| 30 | I could n't quite tell , and as a sort of curator of the afternoon , it made me nervous . |