Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [vb past] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laker took on the airlines ' cartel which held ticket prices high and broke it singlehanded . |
| 2 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Maclean dismissed that as highly speculative and said it had no connection with the draft authorisation under consideration by HMIP . |
| 4 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 5 | Willis was much more cheerful and said it reminded him of a boarding house in the old days . " |
| 6 | There followed a short lull , but from 1620 onwards a succession of attacks by small formations of S.79s commenced but all were successfully beaten off , mainly by the intense gunfire of the ships , although Yellow Section of 808 Squadron , two Fulmars flown by Lt. A.T.J. Kindersley and Lt. Hay , R.M. , caught one bomber at 1710 and claimed it shot down . |
| 7 | But someone had built on a large extension to the rear and this housed the kitchen , which as Meredith was to discover , was large , modern and furbished it seemed with every kind of modern gadget . |
| 8 | There was another advantage late on a lunch-time in that there were always a few city slickers who had ventured north by north-west ( of the Barbican ) to try the Hoskin 's or the Holden 's bitter and found it had got the better of them , so needed a taxi back to civilization . |