Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After ten minutes , ’ wrote J.C.Trewin , ‘ the little piece became so predictable that it needed acting of quite uncommon quality to heighten it . |
| 2 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 3 | This became especially colourful as it dawned upon employers of servants that they would have to buy stamps for their cooks and skivvies . |
| 4 | The net result was that much of the energy from the Sun was reflected back out into space , so that the surface of the Earth became much cooler than it had been before . |
| 5 | Lipsey appeared to have provided a theory of the determinants of money wage changes and , by integration , of the time path for the money wage rate which the economic profession found so convincing that it went virtually unchallenged for several years . |
| 6 | If it all tasted as beguiling as it looks , every dish would be a feast . |
| 7 | One seemed bolder than the others and came so close that it began to enter the realm of ordinary vision . |
| 8 | Recognition of this new client awareness came fairly late and it served to liven the ‘ flats versus houses ’ debate at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s . |
| 9 | The knowledge excited as much as it intrigued him . |
| 10 | Rationing , which still applied to meat , bacon , butter , cheese , tea , sugar and sweets , actually became more austere than it had been in 1945 . |
| 11 | Now that 's when the movement was erm mainly underground , it was erm s organization and working together er in a sort of a covert manner , things were very secretive er and then after June it became more open as it became , the , the er movement became more accepted or well known , it became difficult to continue it underground so it became more open . |
| 12 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 13 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 14 | In the advanced capitalist countries as a whole the share of consumption declined far less than it did in Japan in those exceptional years — between 1952 and 1973 it only slid down from 62.9 per cent of GDP to 59.5 per cent . |
| 15 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |
| 16 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
| 17 | It seemed to be of horsemen having a nice peaceful ride in the wood — picnickers , almost — until I discovered the animal , when it became perfectly clear that it had been a hunting scene all along . |
| 18 | Of course , when each army arrived at the other 's bastide , it found no defences , and looted as much as it wished . |
| 19 | The government lost credibility and became increasingly unpopular as it became evident that it had failed to meet the targets which it had set itself in the March 1990 radical economic austerity plan [ see pp. 37312-13 ; 37371 ] . |
| 20 | For it became increasingly obvious that it did not , as had been intended , miraculously detect native intelligence in children however uneducated , but , on the contrary , was strongly biased in favour of middle-class children who had larger vocabularies than their working-class contemporaries , and who were in any case accustomed to tests and examinations . |
| 21 | She rose slowly , awkwardly , cursing a head that felt so heavy that it threatened to fall off her shoulders , and sat up wincing . |
| 22 | THE upheaval that shook Eastern Europe felt so natural that it seems pointless to ask why it happened . |
| 23 | It is clear , however , that in this case the contracting company felt extremely nervous when it found that representatives of a safety committee had gone straight from the employer to the ultimate operator in the field . |
| 24 | Robyn noticed every detail in a fraction of a second , registered the thought that he looked so wonderful that it did n't bear thinking about , and then she asked , with deliberate bluntness , ‘ What do you want ? ’ |
| 25 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 26 | After the early victories in Bath and Cheltenham , the faces of party supporters gathered at the Liberal Club in Mr Ashdown 's Yeovil constituency grew progressively longer as it became clear the predicted breakthrough was not going to happen . |
| 27 | The place felt more sinister than it had ever done before . |
| 28 | The round table with its magazines was still in the centre , the floor had been repolished and lightened , and against this background the pretty curving staircase looked more elegant than it had ever done . |
| 29 | And yet between these two , from what has been said and written and recollected by both , an intense and governing bond grew up unlikely though it had at first seemed . |
| 30 | She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction . |