Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not set out to be radically different , though Haydn 's colourful scoring was certainly enhanced by the use of period instruments ( including a fortepiano in the recitatives and a bass line reinforced more consistently by bass trombone and contra bassoon ) , but it succeeded in being unforced and unfettered . |
| 2 | It got to be hard to handle , so she bought herself a small file box and some packages of 2 × 3 cards . |
| 3 | I used to have a file , but I found that , as with so many files one opens , I was putting so much in it that it ceased to be useful . |
| 4 | Virtually all of this information was routinely destroyed as soon as it ceased to be useful ( for example , once a set of negotiations had been terminated or a product discontinued ) . |
| 5 | This usually put Dad to rights but must have been pretty potent stuff as it ceased to be available after the war . |
| 6 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 7 | It developed a power which enabled it to ‘ rate cap ’ a group of authorities whom it deemed to be high spenders . |
| 8 | The Sun newspaper was offering to fund a private prosecution against a doctor whom it believed to be guilty of raping an eight year old girl . |
| 9 | It was a fair enough question , and when it came to being fair Fabia endorsed that she owed him this particular explanation . |
| 10 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 11 | It seemed to be impossible to straighten both at the same time ) and thrust out his chest . |
| 12 | It seemed to be genuine . |
| 13 | Yes and eventually Shirley and I thought , well I mean , we spent weeks grouting , we grouted and we grouted and still water was coming through and we grouted and at last it seemed to be dry and the man came and did the re-artexing on the insurance and I had wa new wallpaper put up , for which I paid extra because he only allowed eight pounds a roll , the insurance company only pays eight pounds a roll and I had eleven pound wallpaper and a border and having got the whole thing up the s the patches have appeared again ! |
| 14 | It seemed to be implicit in the speech by the Leader of the Opposition yesterday that the federal vocation is no obstacle to him . |
| 15 | It seemed to be empty . |
| 16 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 17 | But then it seemed to snowball from ‘ Hunky Dory ’ into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ because after playing one or two gigs as an acoustic outfit , it seemed to be natural to take it that step further — to add the bass and add the drums and make it bigger and better — more of a show of it — and so it evolved into ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ . |
| 18 | I had heard Mum say to Grandma that it was n't healthy for a brother and sister to share , and it seemed to be true because Davey had n't caught my cold . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , although time is not identical with motion or change , it seemed to be dependent on them . |
| 20 | Well it was off before and , and he put it back and it seemed to be alright did n't it Joan ? |
| 21 | Me neither , but it seemed to be open season on Angels . |
| 22 | But I tried to keep one thing — the foot — in focus throughout , because it seemed to be moving slowest . ’ |
| 23 | It seemed to be unable to stay underwater without bobbing back to the top . |
| 24 | It seemed to be full of alcoves and angles and small grouped areas of being , though the room itself was a plain rectangle : fish swam in a high globe , a monstrously enlarged goldfish bowl on top of a bookcase , and flowers and foliage stood on small pedestals here and there . |
| 25 | It seemed to be full of levers . |
| 26 | After about 9 days at Gary and Kaye 's we moved to Caroline Lock 's ; she has a small flat under the house , and it happened to be vacant for a week . |
| 27 | But it happened to be true . ’ |
| 28 | It happened to be true . |
| 29 | It happened to be true , though . |
| 30 | It happened to be green . ’ |