Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Cork County Council planning committee met later that month it agreed to hold further consultations with local residents . |
| 2 | This had the effect of making the differences between owl and diurnal raptor digestion appear greater than it really is , and it seemed to confirm earlier reports of minimal effects of digestion in owls ( Reed & Reed , 1928 ; Duke et al . , |
| 3 | Again , it seemed to complete earlier laws on the matter dating back to Magna Carta in its 1217 version . |
| 4 | In the sheltered darkness , out of the wind , it seemed to grow louder and more piercing . |
| 5 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
| 6 | ‘ Then it began to get easier . |
| 7 | And that we 've had no rain since Tuesday , and it started getting hotter yesterday ? ’ |
| 8 | Then it started to get worse , dangerous : the leaving the front door wide open , setting the electric kettle down on the gas hob kind of dangerous . |
| 9 | When I decided to cut myself off totally and become an actor , it started to get easier . |
| 10 | My hair is really short so I do n't actually have to style it but it did feel better and I would use this conditioner again . ’ |
| 11 | The lank look had disappeared and it did look lighter . |
| 12 | I would never have a better diversion , I thought , then it did get better . |
| 13 | Sitting in the rear , maybe it had felt worse , but I 'd been petrified . |
| 14 | The hospital had been built as a memorial to King Edward VII and it had seen better days . |
| 15 | The faded opulence of its belle époque styling , with gleaming brass , mirrored walls and ceiling murals , suggested that it had seen better times in the long distant days of Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec . |
| 16 | The most striking feature of his appearance was a sheepskin jacket which looked as if it had seen better days , sometime in the late nineteen seventies . |
| 17 | Perhaps it had grown fatter since she had last stroked it . |
| 18 | When it had grown older it did show a little interest in females and even deigned to mate with a few , though never with much enthusiasm . |
| 19 | Lisa took a deep breath , crossing her fingers — perhaps it had sounded worse than it was ! — and forced her eyes to slide round towards the Bentley . |
| 20 | When I opened my eyes , it had got colder , so I stood up , brushed off my blazer and set off back to the Gendarmerie . |
| 21 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 22 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 23 | Although she had expressed doubts about Ursula 's interpretation of the police 's conduct , it had rung truer to her than she had cared to admit . |
| 24 | So it had seemed better all round that they should go . |
| 25 | Such an imaginative concept , involving the realisation that the earth is a dynamic planet , made geology a much more attractive and stimulating subject than it had seemed earlier , and many more graduates wanted to pursue careers in such an exciting field . |