Example sentences of "it [adj] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all hurt Arthur 's pride . |
| 2 | And he came in and sat down and put his elbows on the edge of his tray and it all went whack over his blazer and it all slid down onto his trousers . |
| 3 | Beneath it all lay Khrushchev 's hostility to the ‘ cult of personality ’ , declared at the twentieth Congress and afterwards at the very time that Mao 's personality cult was endowing him with almost divine status . |
| 4 | You 're trading off loyalties , off ambition , off belief … it all died years ago . |
| 5 | Suddenly , it all made sense ! |
| 6 | Probably just checking to see we were O.K. Now it all made sense and I thought back to all the others who had suddenly stopped visiting : Cathy , Victoria , Jean . |
| 7 | It all made sense , the relationship between non-Aristotelian logic and the banality of the American way of life : you had to take a detached view of the culture ; you were n't in love with it and you did n't hate it . |
| 8 | Then the words rebounded back to my ears and I heard their sound and their meaning , and the pain came back at that moment , too , and it all made sense , the way a policeman 's knock on the door must make sense when you 've committed a crime . |
| 9 | Now it all made sense . |
| 10 | Suddenly , it all made sense , ’ he added as he brought the car to a halt in front of her flat . |
| 11 | It all took time but worked out in the end . |
| 12 | It all took time and it was past midday before we finally got away . |
| 13 | He was as anxious as anyone could be to get the mine on a proper footing and producing profitably … but it all took time ! |
| 14 | It all took time but often it was the personal touches that reached people 's hearts . |
| 15 | It all took time . |
| 16 | It all suited Jason just fine . |
| 17 | It all seemed kind of strange to Diane . |
| 18 | I did n't even know he still had my address , it all happened years before , we barely even had an affair . |
| 19 | The opportunity afforded by a third term in office is thought to have induced a ‘ triumphalist ’ determination to effect even more remarkable and radical transformations in the social order than were brought about since it first took office in 1979 . |
| 20 | But it has taken the extraordinary campaign of the Natural Law Party to bring home the sheer size and wealth of the movement , 25 years after it first made headlines . |
| 21 | It first produced robots — ‘ electric hands ’ — in 1971 ; more recently the firm designed ‘ intelligent inspection systems ’ that combine video-sensors with the world of machine tools . |
| 22 | Big Pit closed as a working colliery in 1980 , exactly 100 years after it first produced coal . |
| 23 | Platinum first reached Europe in the wake of Spanish colonial enterprise , but it was not until 1741 that it first reached England . |
| 24 | It first reached legislation in the 1944 Education Act which made maladjustment one of the special educational needs for which local education authorities had to provide . |
| 25 | The increasing number of no-union deals in high technology and other industrial endeavours at the cutting edge of technical innovation inevitably invests the employee compensation scheme with greater potential importance than it assumed when it first became law . |
| 26 | It first gained popularity in the ancient world where , in an effort to stop adolescent boys from masturbating , the foreskin was pulled over the end of the penis and held in place by a ring passed through a couple of specially pierced holes . |