Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The language is a bit spicy but it did n't put me off in the slightest . ’ |
| 2 | It was a bit different as it turned out . |
| 3 | He had a reputation for being a bit slow-witted but it did n't perturb him in the least . |
| 4 | Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel . |
| 5 | The removal of the box at Pinmore made his photograph possible as it gave an unimpeded view of the subject . |
| 6 | Carried away on a rushing tide of dark enchantment , she quivered as his tongue caressed her skin , his mouth feather-light as it brushed enticingly , back and forth , over her swollen nipples . |
| 7 | Just build up of , erm I was talking to our Tom about nosebleeds , Alan was saying that his father used to be a lot like David and he used to get terrible headaches and it used to end up in a really bad nosebleed and he started giving blood regular and it stopped it . |
| 8 | Soon , however , she did not have enough time to do this although someone had to relieve the poor beast , and the fresh creamy milk often sat in a gleaming churn in the corner of the kitchen untouched until it went rancid and had to be thrown away . |
| 9 | If there is a petition , and winding-up ensues , then s 127 of the Insolvency Act 1986 will void the restructuring , leaving a lender unsecured if it took place after the petition . |
| 10 | It is not an exaggeration to say that these kept the campaign afloat when it appeared to be sinking for lack of funds . |
| 11 | The wind spun the sea into feathers of spume , the rain solid as it struck Mariana in the face . |
| 12 | And the effect of the war was only to heighten the contradictions and class conflict evident before it began . |
| 13 | This reversed the action of the pitch , elevator and tail rotor channels so that the model handled in exactly the same manner inverted as it did the normal way up . |
| 14 | A woman who kept a child home from school to mind the baby while she worked broke the law , and if she left the baby alone and it injured itself , she was also liable to prosecution . |
| 15 | The beef was tender , the sauce delicious and it came with all the expected accompaniments . |
| 16 | I 'd be looking a bit daft if it did n't . |
| 17 | This was plainly not part of the agreement and not only was the French government furious but it used the sentence as an excuse to generate public support for Mafart and Prieur on the grounds that they were being unfairly treated by the New Zealand government . |
| 18 | WINE maker Johann Grimes , of Wotton-under-Edge , Glos , found his labrador legless after it had lapped up a bucket of his home brew . |
| 19 | Bartolini also admitted : ‘ We were a little bit worried when it happened and , of course , he was a little bit scared . |
| 20 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 21 | He was the first star to weather the storm of a dope scandal , emerging unscathed and proving the Indianapolis Star wrong when it prophesied that ‘ The public never did — never will — laugh off a dope scandal involving a screen favourite performer . |
| 22 | I find that kind of back-door pressure disgraceful and it caused great concern to many people in my local association . |
| 23 | It 's bin a mite hectic while it lasted , but it wuz worth it jes ’ t'smoke out that nest of rattlers that wuz runnin' Bethlehem House . |
| 24 | Overall severity of gastrointestinal symptoms influenced the final height centile as it had height velocity during the initial years of follow up . |
| 25 | Receivers called in to keep the shipbuilding company afloat after it failed to win a Ministry of Defence helicopter carrier order were meeting union officials this morning . |
| 26 | While there was , at least for Monnet and Schuman , an altruistic motive behind the scheme , it is clear that France found the idea attractive because it offered a better way than the International Ruhr Authority of binding the new West Germany to external control while it was still relatively weak . |
| 27 | The BBC says it chose Stewart Park , Middlesbrough , for a Bank Holiday special because it offered better car parking than parks in Stockton , while Stockton did not have an auditorium to compare with the size of Middlesbrough Town Hall . |
| 28 | Poacher Marino Malerba , 35 , shot a stag dead as it stood on an overhanging rock in Trento , Italy . |
| 29 | It was pitch dark and it went really fast but I was n't scared ! ’ |
| 30 | So , inference : the picture had been painted at a time other than it appeared to have been , and had been painted by someone who " could not have been there " . |