Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again .
2 But it said I heard that it said chemotherapy well what 's that 's erm drugs is it , no that 's radiation is n't it ?
3 I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago .
4 The shareholders of the holding company entered into a shareholders ' agreement which stated that it had precedence over the Articles of Association , and clause 3 of that agreement provided that " no further share capital shall be created or issued in the company … without the written consent of each of the parties hereto " .
5 She said that some social workers were uneasy about that , and she agreed that it involved trust , but it was also to avoid abandoning the problem to someone else .
6 Newport in Shropshire was ‘ new ’ in the twelfth century when it was granted a charter by Henry I , who required that it supply fish to the royal household from its medieval fish-pond .
7 The doctrine of scientific determinism was strongly resisted by many people , who felt that it infringed God 's freedom to intervene in the world , but it remained the standard assumption of science until the early years of this century .
8 I did resent her quite a lot for what she did but it gave way after a few months .
9 The nurses topped it up again as soon as they realised but it took time to go through and have any effect so I had about twenty minutes of real labour pains .
10 They stated that it cost taxpayers 3bn to 4bn per annum in overrun defence contracts .
11 And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston .
12 It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 .
13 He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose .
14 The Arts Council gave a substantial grant to this scheme as it felt that it emphasised artists ‘ opportunities and practice , rather than the institution and its curatorial staff .
15 SunSelect Inc chief Carl Ledbetter says the company does n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc : WABI has n't been turned into a product yet but something 's expected shortly and it should be bundled into Solaris this year ; meanwhile , Quorum Software Systems Inc will put Equal , its Macintosh application adaptor on Solaris-on-Sparc , and ship it later this quarter , giving Sun access to Mac versions of Word and Excel .
16 SunSelect chief Carl Ledbetter says they do n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc .
17 All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader .
18 The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me .
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