Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] [conj] it [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First the newlyweds had to flee their hired Rolls-Royce when it went up in flames . |
| 2 | They took no notice of the black Mercedes as it slipped noiselessly out of the parking space behind them , the driver 's foot hovering over the accelerator . |
| 3 | But it had fallen mostly into desuetude in mid-nineteenth-century Europe and it had certainly not been evident in France during the reign of Louis-Philippe . |
| 4 | A MAN and two teenage girls lay dead for hours in their wrecked Land-Rover after it careered off a country lane in a gale . |
| 5 | It was not , of course , merely the noisome aspect which needed to be dealt with ; Asiatic cholera made its appearance in 19th-century Europe because it found virtually Asiatic conditions in the open sewers and cesspits of the great cities . |