Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
| 2 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
| 3 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
| 4 | A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman . |
| 5 | Out of it came the British Aircraft Corporation ( an amalgamation of Vickers and English Electric ) with the design contract , and Bristol-Siddeley with the responsibility for the development of the Olympus engine . |
| 6 | But now , along the middle of it came an old woman pushing a hand-cart on which was a pile of rags . |
| 7 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 8 | None of it removed the nagging misery from her mind , the horror at the thought of Eleanor Thorne , sweet-natured as she was , being consigned to a mental hospital for geriatrics , to a public ward in a public bed , her possessions named with white tapes , her false teeth removed , her talk and actions , perhaps even her death , made common property . |
| 9 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
| 10 | Underneath it stood an orange box on top of which were two flower pots . |
| 11 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 12 | Behind it lay the Anglo-American fusion that had powered the paper in 1966 and through the first eighteen months . |
| 13 | The tracks it left behind it bisected a faded trail of bootprints . |
| 14 | Behind it stood an old-fashioned switchboard and numbered pigeon-holes for the guests ' post . |
| 15 | Behind it stood the international gold standard . |
| 16 | With it came a new sound — deep and frightening . |
| 17 | This objective was indeed achieved , but with it came a spectacular collapse in crude prices , which lasted from 1985 into the following year , when there were calls from the Gulf states for Britain to cut its North Sea output ‘ as part of a global effort between OPEC and non-OPEC exporters to restabilize the world oil market ’ . |
| 18 | With it came a sudden clarity of atmosphere , so that the trees and haystacks stood out in high relief , and the distant hills seemed to come nearer now that their outline was sharply etched on the horizon . |
| 19 | With the growth in industry there was also a significant development of trade , particularly in the early Tudor period , and with it came the increasing dominance of London in the English economy . |
| 20 | With it came the first episode of Merseyside 's very own soap Brookside . |
| 21 | With it came an overwhelming desire to press herself closer . |
| 22 | Hahnemann disagreed with this opinion and as a result of self-experimentation with it rediscovered the forgotten principle of treatment by similars . |
| 23 | To the French he was a great innovator , an artist who brought a startling lightness to the execution of his pictures , and with it introduced a fresh breeze of English naturalism into French landscape painting . |
| 24 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 25 | The egg which had been stirred into it gave an unusual texture , and the pepper added pungency . |
| 26 | When Stox went under it became a laughing stock . |
| 27 | From it sprang a beautiful rose-bush — which blossomed with black flowers . |
| 28 | From it emerged a black policeman , who left his white and clearly superior colleague sitting in the car . |
| 29 | Maryland was organized as a late and formal version of the feudal system , the Virginian way of life was always expected to reflect some memories of the heirs of the Elizabethan gentlemen and seadogs who had launched it , and Massachusetts and the other New England colonies that emerged from it retained a moral earnestness that sometimes survived the loss of the faith that had initially inspired the earnestness . |
| 30 | It was a momentary thought , quickly dispelled when Sara took Hartley in her arms ; but from it crystallized the firm decision that both Hartley and any other children they might have should be spared a city childhood , and be ‘ bred up from earliest infancy in the simplicity of peasants , their food , dress , and habits completely rustic ’ . |