Example sentences of "it [conj] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whoever wrote it or designed those basic garments knew that you would be struggling to learn all you could in the shortest possible time and that to give you concise diagrams and stitch and row numbers would cut down any need for extra calculations by you . |
| 2 | For example , a general wage increase in a factory will be passed on to everyone , whether they backed the union campaign which secured it or remained inactive during a period of industrial militancy . |
| 3 | There was something about it that seemed different , but he could n't tell what it was . |
| 4 | As she walked down the corridor , she gave it that bit extra . |
| 5 | But whose money was it that tempted these stupid girls ? |
| 6 | He was aware of the parts of it that remained unchanged and equally of the innovations . |
| 7 | I enjoyed it and followed most of the Italian OK . |
| 8 | Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored . |
| 9 | He found it and grew absorbed . |
| 10 | She held it on her finger and sang to it and made little kissing noises with her lips that he tried to imitate . |
| 11 | Steve Wilson was equal to it and made three excellent saves . |
| 12 | Despite Hojjatoleslam Rafsanjani 's assurances that the object of Karbala No 5 was not Basrah , Iran had not quite abandoned all hope of taking it and made another attempt in April , again approaching by way of Fish Lake and claiming numerous Iraqi losses . |
| 13 | She , Cecilia , though a loving , kind and humble woman , touched no one if she could help it and thought this reserve might be connected with her never having been much for sex . |
| 14 | S still wondered about it and thought This is a little funny . |
| 15 | Tom would n't talk about it and spent most of his spare time at his club . |
| 16 | Matisse substantiated this story by his statement to Warnod that he had bought a negro statuette in a curiosity shop in the rue de Rennes , on his way to Gertrude Stein 's , and that Picasso saw it and became enthusiastic about it . |
| 17 | It was a finely worked piece of silver and obviously of great value ; but while she admired it and felt honoured to receive it , Sara could not honestly say that she enjoyed having its chain about her neck . |
| 18 | And I was n't cold — I just liked wearing my anorak because I was fond of it and felt comfortable in it . |
| 19 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |
| 20 | I mean we can because we 've studied it and had all the statistics and stuff . |
| 21 | It had been sent to an isolated kibbutz with food but the Arabs stopped it and killed forty-seven Jews . |
| 22 | I thought it might have amused X. Ray to see it and hoped one day he would , but not under the hostile circumstances in which I had the misfortune to discover myself . |
| 23 | But if you changed it and said all black people are evil and are the cause of all the evil the world ! |
| 24 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 25 | I assumed something was wrong with the unit , so I took it back from where I bought it and got another one . |
| 26 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 27 | Moving gingerly , she went over to it and lifted one corner of the cloth , shining her torch on the canvas . |
| 28 | And then I thought I 'd really put my foot in it and embarrassed both of us |
| 29 | The captain , who had done this sort of thing before , did not discuss it and discouraged any of his officers and men from doing so . |
| 30 | Mrs Hellyer only came once a week and though Dad did some of the housework , shuffling round in the mornings and yawning , almost everything had a skin of dust over it and smelt mouldy , like furniture stored in an attic . |