Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it got dark I drove over and parked around the corner . |
| 2 | it got darker what it used to . |
| 3 | It became apparent they were n't quite the compliant , bought and paid for hacks the malais hoped they were . |
| 4 | He solved the problem by dispersing the fish in smaller groups once it became apparent he needed to do so . |
| 5 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ George Best ’ had confirmed the group 's status as a major outfit and it became inevitable they would soon move on from their Reception Records . |
| 7 | Finally , the mix of pro-fascist and pro-democratic elements was an indication that , in international as in domestic affairs , Franco 's preferred tactic was to keep all his options open until it became clear which side was going to win . |
| 8 | These were the sorts of technical problems I began discussing with my colleague Mike Stewart in the early days of the chick work , when it became clear we would want to try to make this type of measurement . |
| 9 | It became clear she was on holiday , and when she returned to work a disciplinary hearing was held and she was sacked . |
| 10 | After three weeks , during which time it became clear she might be in her dotage before she mastered the Warsaw Concerto , she 'd given it up . |
| 11 | ‘ When it became clear I was going to have the baby , he left me , ’ she says . |
| 12 | When it became clear I was a success he tried to get rid of me permanently . |
| 13 | ‘ I read the letters between him and his brother and it became clear he could n't even buy petrol on the New Jersey turnpike without writing to the petrol company about being over-charged . |
| 14 | Among East Anglian property pundits , alarm over what Mr Lamont might be planning for the region 's property market turned to relief as it became clear he had no major upsets in store . |
| 15 | Turning away , she bent to pick up her skis and sticks , then began walking away from him , only releasing a pent-up breath when it became clear he was n't going to follow her . |
| 16 | Sadly , the momentum gathered in the early days of my crusade had fizzled out by April , when it became obvious we were heading for Division One . |
| 17 | DeFries began to build his MainMan empire in New York and it became obvious it was n't always in support of what David was doing . |
| 18 | When it became obvious she was not at home , he decided — against his better judgement — to try Swans ' Meadow , directory enquiries furnishing the number . |
| 19 | nearly killed herself , she stuffed a up her fanny and it stuffed all her |
| 20 | The LMSR Company was the biggest operator of commercial road vehicles in the country , and because of this , and the fact that it built all its own stock of horse-drawn vehicles and designed and built all the bodies to its own designs on various motor chassis , it had great influence on the development of commercial vehicles in Great Britain from the early 1920s until around 1940 . |
| 21 | It transpired that his mother only had one leg . ’ |
| 22 | During 1967 and 1968 it received some one hundred and fifty cards or letters every day . |
| 23 | The wheelbarrow had been stuck , almost to the axle , but when it came free I toppled with it . |
| 24 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 25 | There was a general election pending at this time and it seemed certain we should lose it . |
| 26 | It seemed certain it happened at the time of manufacture . |
| 27 | They 'd come here to learn , but it seemed all they would ever learn was how to alter that which they had no possibility of understanding into something so familiar there was no point in their understanding it . |
| 28 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 29 | It seemed impossible he would escape detection , and with each yard he covered he expected the alarm to be raised from within the house . |
| 30 | It seemed unlikely they would have placed a bomb so close to Livingstone Manor , but it was better to be sure than dead . |