Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 2 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |
| 3 | It said nothing about educational or cultural co-operation , it did not do anything to bring EMU nearer ( that was left to the Delors Plan ) and it effectively left foreign policy co-operation in government hands . |
| 4 | Oxford did all the attacking but Luton did all the scoring … it only took one goal to win it and that came from Ceri Hughes midway through the first half … |
| 5 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 6 | It only had one wing . |
| 7 | The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure , but could not conceal that it only had one arm . |
| 8 | I used to find myself walking the landing bladed up and it only needed one word out of place and I 'd turn them into a Tetley Tea Bag and I 'd never get out . |
| 9 | They sent up a thick screen of flak between the Goshawk planes and the second balloon , damning anyone who tried to break through The usual haphazard spray of machine-gun fire sprinkled the air , inaccurate and half-spent at that height , but it only needed one bulletin the head to destroy a whole aircraft . |
| 10 | Yeah , it only happened last week , Thursday |
| 11 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 12 | Playing it long became second nature . |
| 13 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
| 14 | Nelson Mandela 's wife , Winnie angered the government by saying that it merely meant contemporary end to armed action and that the A N C reserved the right to reactivate its armed guerrillas at any time . |
| 15 | It especially benefited commercial development . |
| 16 | week or so , it just got that bit |
| 17 | oh it just started this week , it 's not swollen |
| 18 | Oh it just happened that way . |
| 19 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |
| 20 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 21 | Although the eighteenth-century house was essentially public with its absence of corridors and its interconnecting rooms , expressing what Henry Wotton had described in 1624 as ‘ the fond Ambition of displaying to a Stranger all our Furniture at one Sight ’ , it nevertheless made generous provision for those who wished to make their journeys privately , within the mind . |
| 22 | No one knows who first made the quip but it soon had universal currency . |
| 23 | At the end of one hour her back was aching as if it had been kicked all over by a mule ; but she went on doggedly , though it soon became absolute agony . |
| 24 | He 's slightly happier about ‘ Fontana ’ , the second album and the one that yielded a hit in the shape of Shine On , but personnel problems were beginning to mar the band 's outlook and it soon became common knowledge that there was wet rot in The House Of Love . |
| 25 | It soon emerged that performance was high on Ashton 's list of priorities as indicated by his having taken a series of lessons in Formula Fords at Brand 's Hatch . |
| 26 | But it utterly prevented permanent victory . |
| 27 | In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences . |
| 28 | She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect . |
| 29 | The Girls smoked despite the fact that it usually meant instant dismissal if they were found out . |
| 30 | The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them . |