Example sentences of "[adj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How completely different it sounded in French . |
| 2 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 3 | He refused to comment on Pittencrieff 's intentions for its recently-acquired 16.6 per cent stake in Aberdeen Petroleum , but said Pittencrieff had made it clear it wanted to see rationalisation among the smaller oil companies . |
| 4 | Now it 's clear it did n't . ’ |
| 5 | BAe has made it clear it did not consider the bid by Mr Hooke as a serious contender and has said it regards the Raytheon offer as best for the company , shareholders and employees . |
| 6 | Although making clear it preferred Mr Major to Mr Kinnock , it concluded by giving its backing — just — to a vote for the Labour Party . |
| 7 | In the end de Gaulle 's strategy had succeeded , but the fact that it had required Coty 's intervention to be successful showed just how risky it had been . |
| 8 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 9 | ‘ It was chauffeur-driven and chauffeur-maintained before the war and if anything went wrong it went straight back to Rolls-Royce . |
| 10 | The new Emperor had seen how instrumental it had been in holding back the tide of Chaos and wanted to add yet another weapon to mankind 's arsenal . |
| 11 | After lying deserted it became a timber factory for a while in the 1960s . |
| 12 | For a second I considered whether I might not be able to make a meal from the remains , but , not only was the edge off my appetite , there was something repulsive about the thought of eating carrion , however fresh it looked . |
| 13 | What was funny it made a loud noise but it hurt my ankle as well . |
| 14 | The tide was so high it gave the impression of the train being waterborne . |
| 15 | It dragged their small boat for several miles and as it struggled to get free it spat out a human torso , some pieces of wetsuit and a face mask . |
| 16 | The company , founded by Mrs Cooper 's great grandfather Robert Richardson , soon began to specialise in clock making and became so popular it had to set up a separate factory at Robert Street . |
| 17 | The more I thought of that midnight face , the more intelligent and charming it became ; and it seemed too to have had a breeding , a fastidiousness , a delicacy , that attracted me as fatally as the local fishermen 's lamps attracted fish on moonless nights . |
| 18 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 19 | It did n't sink darling it floated on the top , so we really need that one in there but I tell you what we 'll do , because you 've tr , written it so nicely we 'll put a little arrow and we 'll put there , that means that goes in there , alright , that 's smashing now all you need to do now is write your name on it |
| 20 | Bristol University Student Union declined to join the protest , afraid it had been hijacked by extremists . |
| 21 | ‘ I mentioned to Jed that Nerina had a crush on him , and I 'm afraid it got back to her . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm afraid it went bust all of … . ’ |
| 23 | I 'm afraid it killed Sir Conrad Meredith-Lee . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm afraid it led |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm afraid it vanished along the main highway . |
| 26 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid it did n't mean anything to me at the time . |
| 28 | ‘ No , I 'm afraid it did n't . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm afraid it did , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 30 | Er my Lord I 'm afraid it did n't . |