Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In due course it became known as Thriddle , or Bouncy Shaft . |
| 2 | Thirdly , this solution was too reminiscent for his liking of the unsuccessful Unión Patriótica ( Patriotic Union ) , an artificial creation which had failed to provide Primo de Rivera 's dictatorship with the spontaneous popular support it had needed to survive . |
| 3 | With its hints of dangerous work and high selectivity it had seemed like nature 's way . |
| 4 | Like the rest of the Old Rectory it had become home . |
| 5 | Birmingham-based BSA Tools boss Keith Bailey , 57 , claimed outside court that the Government had given a clear message it wanted to trade with Saddam 's regime . |
| 6 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 7 | The decisiveness and fresh conviction it brought made no difference to my theology and very little difference to my choices and values seen from the outside . |
| 8 | Though it had gone now , its mark was everywhere , not least in a great dirty universal tide-line it had painted , seven feet above ground level . |
| 9 | Though 1660 marked the end of feudalism in its political aspect , in the sphere of private law it continued to cause many difficulties , which were not removed until 1925 . |
| 10 | Dropping it on the red-pooled floor , Ace stared back at Richmann 's body and the sticky smear it had left on the grey metal of the door . |
| 11 | In what Kohl described as " a terrible defeat " for the CDU in Baden-Württemberg , Germany 's richest state , the party lost the absolute majority it had held for 20 years . |
| 12 | Two generations later one educationist , Geoff Whitty , questioned the value of the political education movement precisely because of the official support it had received . |
| 13 | ‘ What rotten luck it had to happen now ! |
| 14 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 15 | Like many a similar building it had declined in status but in recent years it has been handsomely restored to its former glory . |
| 16 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 17 | The SCDC Arts in Schools Project , although spoken of by the one LEA in the sample which was a participant in terms of gratitude for the support the Project 's staff had given , was criticized by staff in the other LEAs for the limited help it had given to them . |
| 18 | I do n't know how much actual difference it did make . |
| 19 | From the roof of the banqueting hall he could see that the river , which had been almost dry until now , had swollen greatly , it continued to rise during the night until by the following morning it had submerged the melon beds . |
| 20 | By early summer it had moved to still more opulent quarters in Hanover Square . |
| 21 | The six-part model it presented comprised : |
| 22 | In 1648 he wrote to the Westminster Assembly , criticizing the Presbyterian system it had devised , but the only result was the suspension of his augmentation at Winchester . |
| 23 | Amateurism was scrapped at the same moment that the imperial structure it had helped to sustain was itself wound up . |
| 24 | They had formulated some vague ideas which would let them use this effect to shorten the perceived time it took to play the games they had to play , but the castle clocks , or perhaps the castle itself , seemed unwilling to cooperate . |
| 25 | Even during the recession years of the early 1980s , the rate of net outward migration from Greater London to the rest of the South East never fell below 40 000 a year and with the subsequent economic recovery it had risen to 65 000 by 1986–87 ( Champion and Congdon , 1988 ) . |
| 26 | From being a little bitter it had become increasingly affectionate , as Matey had shrewdly noted . |
| 27 | All this information , compiled during a journey that may have lasted as much as a quarter of an hour , enabled it to deduce the exact course it had to take in order to arrive back at its nest-hole . |
| 28 | The Party was very conscious of the fact that in spite of its large majority it had fared very badly in the inner urban areas , and it was without question this result which prompted Mrs Thatcher to state immediately after the election that policies for the inner city were to have top priority . |
| 29 | For a little while it had amused him . |
| 30 | While the civil war raged , the English government could not maintain even the rather shadowy control it had exercised previously . |