Example sentences of "it had a [adj] quality " in BNC.
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1 | It had a cellar-like quality about it , with its abundance of wine bottles everywhere , some of them looking quite ancient . |
2 | Now , in the soft light from the house , it had a piquant quality . |
3 | It had a difficult-to-hit quality about it , an almost larky imperviousness to attempting to interfere with it . |
4 | It was a sound they knew , one often heard at night from within the dark walls of the cottages in the village , but out here it was around them and with them and part of them and it had an eerie quality as though inside the vixen some diabolic spirit was entrapped , a demon screeching its despair . |
5 | It had an uncanny quality of whiteness , like Moby Dick . |