Example sentences of "it [vb past] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got to be such a strain , though . |
| 2 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 3 | Worried that his brother might be close to a nervous collapse , he refrained from spelling it out bluntly , but what it amounted to was this : Do n't kick the bourgeois while they are still feeding you . |
| 4 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 5 | Virtually all of this information was routinely destroyed as soon as it ceased to be useful ( for example , once a set of negotiations had been terminated or a product discontinued ) . |
| 6 | It ceased to be such a good bargain . |
| 7 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 8 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 9 | It developed a power which enabled it to ‘ rate cap ’ a group of authorities whom it deemed to be high spenders . |
| 10 | It promised to be another brilliant day . |
| 11 | All in all , it promised to be another heavenly day , she thought , feeling her spirits rise almost perceptibly . |
| 12 | The Sun newspaper was offering to fund a private prosecution against a doctor whom it believed to be guilty of raping an eight year old girl . |
| 13 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |
| 14 | However , if more than that was needed and the family began to have more serious problems , then on the whole it seemed to be better to bring in an outside agency unconnected to the placement process . |
| 15 | And then the when they were built Sometimes some folk used to build them into what they called a hay soo It was a square kind of a thing but er and I do n't know why they put it into a hays hay soo as we say , but it seemed to er it seemed to be better to keep the h the wet out I suppose . |
| 16 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 17 | It seemed to be all suckers and tentacles . |
| 18 | It seemed to be impossible to straighten both at the same time ) and thrust out his chest . |
| 19 | It seemed to be genuine . |
| 20 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 21 | It seemed to be implicit in the speech by the Leader of the Opposition yesterday that the federal vocation is no obstacle to him . |
| 22 | It seemed to be some kind of ferry , because they were being poled across from one side of the canal to the other — while they remained standing , like people on a packed London bus . |
| 23 | It seemed to be empty . |
| 24 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 25 | But then it seemed to snowball from ‘ Hunky Dory ’ into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ because after playing one or two gigs as an acoustic outfit , it seemed to be natural to take it that step further — to add the bass and add the drums and make it bigger and better — more of a show of it — and so it evolved into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ . |
| 26 | I had heard Mum say to Grandma that it was n't healthy for a brother and sister to share , and it seemed to be true because Davey had n't caught my cold . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , although time is not identical with motion or change , it seemed to be dependent on them . |
| 28 | It seemed to be another fit like the last one , only worse . |
| 29 | Well it was off before and , and he put it back and it seemed to be alright did n't it Joan ? |
| 30 | Me neither , but it seemed to be open season on Angels . |