Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj -er] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 2 | Its essence stayed the same but now there was something new in its texture , and it became clearer as it approached . |
| 3 | Erm , we carried on , er , it got better as it went on . |
| 4 | The salt made the ice melt , so the ice took the heat it needed to melt from the cream mixture which got colder until it froze and became ice cream . |
| 5 | The cloud became thicker and it began to snow . |
| 6 | The cykesound became a speck on the road , and grew bigger as it approached . |
| 7 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 8 | The dinner became noisier as it progressed but , because most of the shouted conversation was in Yek , Rostov confined himself to his food . |
| 9 | The sea sounded louder as it claimed the beaches . |