Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first instance ( labour ) court fully upheld the claim on the basis of the general provisions of the Civil Code relating to the conclusion of contracts in conjunction with Act 1414/1984 , i.e. it applied aforementioned well established case law relating to unlawful refusal to hire , mentioning also the von Colson judgment of the ECJ . |
| 2 | He had done it so often , yet it got worse rather than easier : pain in the gut , sticky sourness in the back of the throat , thighs trembling with tension but the hands steady . |
| 3 | It got worse still . |
| 4 | We saw no risk at all in our artistic adventure , although it got dark much quicker than I 'd expected . |
| 5 | I said oh just when it got dark really I said we 're having it down the house , I said erm drank more port I said every time we went to the loo they filled up my glass |
| 6 | so that was a shame , but er it got better slowly you know |
| 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 | They did it last spring when it was warm , when it got warm too early |
| 9 | Better to gamble that a private collector would keep the car until it became rare enough to warrant accepting it , if it were offered later . |
| 10 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 11 | It was now , at the moment of supreme triumph , that it became apparent once more that the fates were intervening to demonstrate that the day was to be memorable most of all for its disasters . |
| 12 | PP : Initially we had a prologue in which Peter Grimes 's father appeared on his death-bed , in which he solemnly cursed his son ; but it became apparent fairly soon that this was not a very good idea and the prologue was reshaped by the time we arrived back in England . |
| 13 | This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again . |
| 14 | In this transition it became metaphorical rather than actual . |
| 15 | In 1925 it became used partly as the school and partly as the village hall . |
| 16 | " I 'm not saying that it started off to be one , but in my view it became fraudulent pretty Soon . |
| 17 | As these contracted , and the atoms within them collided with one another , the temperature of the gas would increase , until eventually it became hot enough to start nuclear fusion reactions . |
| 18 | Lifting our skirts higher and higher to avoid the water we carefully dropped them as it became shallow again . |
| 19 | Once the courts moved towards applying the collateral fact doctrine , and to that extent redetermining the constituent elements of certain of the conditions of jurisdiction , it became natural also to consider whether the evidence supported the existence of those collateral facts . |
| 20 | It became French relatively early , in 1454 . |
| 21 | ( First Edition ) AMBULANCE union leaders are to consider stepping up industrial action after it became clear yesterday that management had made no concessions in talks with Acas , the conciliation service , writes Barrie Clement . |
| 22 | Mr Lawes and Mr Whatling said they had signed a partnership deal once it became clear how important the find was . |
| 23 | It became derelict rapidly , a picturesque feature of the local landscape , until the late 1960s ( Plate 45 ) . |
| 24 | When it happened for a third time , it became remarkable enough to distract him from a rapt analysis of Heather 's reasoning . |
| 25 | Suffice to say that it became evident fairly soon that the existing monetary techniques of regulation were not sufficiently effective , and in 1957 a committee was set up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to inquire into the working of the monetary and credit system in the UK . |
| 26 | As floral tributes built up , it became evident how much he was held in affection and esteem by local people . |
| 27 | I was told that it became hand-tamed almost immediately , and I wondered whether this had anything to do with those eyes . |
| 28 | It became obvious however that because of limited resources within the Transport Department workshops , it would be necessary to seek outside assistance if significant progress was to be made in replacing the fleet . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end , I do n't suppose it made all that much difference , ’ Mr Corfe admitted . |
| 30 | It made possible both Lenin 's defeat of revisionism and the adventurism of hot-headed figures such as Bogdanov , and the dissemination among advanced workers of the scientific understanding of the laws of history discovered by Marx and developed by Lenin . |