Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hot day , my uncomfortable collar made tighter by a tie on this deserted Sunday , made this make-believe rendezvous more unreal than it already had become . |
| 2 | Only she lived in the posh part , called Hove , and whenever people said ‘ You live in Brighton , do n't you ? ’ it was normal to reply ‘ Hove , actually ’ until it almost had become the name , Hove-Actually . |
| 3 | It was better if it never had happened . ’ |
| 4 | Two of its lead investors declined to participate : MIPS because it had problems of its own and Singapore-based Wearnes Technology Pte , its manufacturing arm , because it reportedly got distracted by a PC deal with IBM . |
| 5 | Then , for a while the character was named Tanni , before it finally got changed , on Spooner 's rewrite , to Vicki . |
| 6 | Rokeya 's small living-room seemed , as it always had done , over-powered , infested , adorned , camouflaged , complicated and prettied by maddeningly elusive antique objects . |
| 7 | In the countryside , life must have continued for a long time as it always had done . |