Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Much of the Alliance advance occurred in its traditional heartlands of the north , where it successfully exploited economic and political insecurities of the local bourgeoisie .
2	It duly went septic .
3	It expressly stated that
4	It rather got lost in the rush . ’
5	It rarely took more than an hour .
6	It rarely took more than an hour .
7	She disliked losing her temper against her will because it rarely achieved useful results and symbolised impotence rather than strength : always better to channel anger than display it , she thought .
8	The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way .
9	And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all .
10	Mrs Frizzell digested this truth , and the import of it slowly became clear to her .
11	This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees .
12	It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands .
13	It effectively halted all plans to transport aid from the port , although the EPLF 's aid arm , the Eritrean Relief Association , asked for shipments to be resumed under its control .
14	Given Shakeshaft 's conservatism , and the BEA 's long power station construction times , relative backwardness was indeed inevitable , since it effectively placed eleven years between the trial of new technology in America and its first adoption in Britain .
15	It eventually absorbed these activities into its own growth and development .
16	Whatever , it eventually became impossible to ensure compliance .
17	But it eventually got accepted . ’
18	But in spite of its success , sustained attempts to falsify it eventually proved successful .
19	Through the book Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine by John Speed [ q.v. ] ( 1612 ) it eventually provided several generations of British and foreign map-users with their cartographic image of central and southern Ireland .
20	Because of the short life of the sealed unit built into each ball , it only lasted six months .
21	It was when I was about twelve I broke the front of my tooth so I I had a temporary cap put on , and it only lasted six months and came off !
22	So , again I wrote , telling the would-be backpacker that having the survival bag was a bit like taking out insurance — it only became useful if he had an emergency .
23	The minister , who had radically restructured French research and technology , actually handed in his resignation on 2 February after a clash with President Francois Mitterrand — but it only became public last week .
24	But even as late as 1861 , it only represented 9 per cent of all architects .
25	It only took six seconds to load each room but some puzzles require you to operate buttons in several rooms , so you would obviously be running between rooms for a while .
26	Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half …
27	Yes it only took four or five minutes until you were told the occupants were secure but then it er everybody waited for the C I D to arrive .
28	It only took this one slight pressure when he was least expecting it and he came loose .
29	It only took half a second to realize that I was not on camera but had strolled into a genuine ‘ stick-up ’ .
30	You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did .

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