Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My foot was giving me murder , and it got worse during the next few days , but I still had to go out and fodder the cattle . |
| 2 | ‘ She did , but it got worse for her . |
| 3 | ‘ But it got ridiculous in the end — I had nothing to eat in the house . ’ |
| 4 | which , so that you got the stables shut up before it got dark at four o'clock , ai n't it |
| 5 | As it got dark in the evening she became scared . |
| 6 | , they , remember last , end of last winter when it got mild after the cold spell , they were building their nests and then we got all that cold weather again , all the , all the fledglings were dead . |
| 7 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 8 | Towards the end it got better and they worked , it was a bad start , but it got better towards the end . |
| 9 | It got better after that , because then you started meeting blokes who cared about you as well . |
| 10 | ‘ It got better after twelve o'clock . ’ |
| 11 | It got better by the minute . |
| 12 | two months and she phoned up and I kind of made out it got lost in the post . |
| 13 | I stand up and brush my coat down just in case it got dirty with me sitting on the ground . |
| 14 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |
| 15 | It got stuck on the fence . |
| 16 | A CRANE caused traffic chaos in Belfast yesterday when it got stuck under a bridge . |
| 17 | I guess Waldo must have been the codename for CorelDRAW 2 during development and it got stuck in the code . |
| 18 | It got light at about half-past four , he thought . |
| 19 | It revealed Docherty to be a witty , compulsive and outspoken man who feels cheated by the past . |
| 20 | The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 21 | It skimmed low over the water . |
| 22 | Close under the grey buttresses of the wall one of the long stones was propped on its side , the grave beside it laid open to the frosty sky . |
| 23 | The movement of a large number of sellers in the parallel market would drive down the price , and push up the yield until it equalled that in the discount market . |
| 24 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 25 | In his view it divided young from old by its suggestion that only young people study . |
| 26 | It became easy for The Smiths to retain their true audience . |
| 27 | During a study of the various styles , it became apparent to me that if the back legs are set into the seat rails at an angle , this angle , together with the curvature of the rear legs and backward slope of the chair back can regulate the flair : if the legs are mounted at right angles to the rear seat rail , there would be no flair . |
| 28 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 29 | When it became apparent to the teacher that Sherman was intent on proceeding to the gorilla area , it became necessary to say ‘ No . ’ |
| 30 | It became apparent to them that the Masai did not wander haphazardly about , ignorantly destroying grazing and oblivious to the control of cattle disease , but had an indigenous system of pasture management and far more understanding of the nature of cattle disease than settlers , and even the Veterinary Department , supposed . |