Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He was making a careful examination of the bowls and plates it contained in dusty confusion .
2 These examples suggest that while antislavery could not become an explicit test of membership of chapel communities it did in many cases become a norm of memberships and of a minister 's identity .
3 Polgar resolved to do the same , although for years it resulted in severe poverty .
4 Actually what is now taken to be the normal and basic meaning of the English word " family " is far removed from the meaning it carried in earlier times when the economic basis of English society was different .
5 Accordingly , the Agricultural Training Board , like similar organisations , needed to consider the priorities it gave in these areas .
6 Thus the death of Catherine I of Russia in 1727 and the changes it produced in Russian policy in the Baltic brought about a reconciliation with Britain after a long period of antagonism ; the death in 1762 of the Empress Elizabeth meant Russia 's immediate withdrawal from the Seven Years War ; and the accession to the throne of Frederick II was an essential preliminary to the Prussian attack on Silesia in 1740 .
7 It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons .
8 But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam .
9 Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes .
10 The New York-based Hungarian Telephone & Cable Corp plans to invest up to $300m in the development of local Hungarian telephone companies , installing up to 200,000 new telephone lines , and it also plans to invest the money it raised in long-distance telephone ventures .
11 Perhaps , too , the darker minds , full of rancour and disharmony , anger , lust , egotism , greed and intense attachment to the things of this world , takes the hell it experienced in physical life into its own world of mental hell when deprived of the physical form .
12 Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions .
13 The office of collector attracted that type of candidate , and throughout the century it remained in high demand , occasioning many notable political battles in the counties .
14 Cos I 've the bill for the hotel it came in one lump as two hundred and four pound .
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