Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 2 | World heavyweight boxing ends the year much as it started this year and almost every other year — in total chaos . |
| 3 | Taking the radical students ' ideals at face-value one might have expected them to see this incident as yet another example of oppression by a fascist regime and protest against it — after all , they protested enough when it used such methods against its own people . |
| 4 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 5 | Then , just as it seemed that sleep was a compulsion he could no longer resist , Lucien heard a noise in the room . |
| 6 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 7 | ‘ Just as it invaded this mutton ? ’ |
| 8 | The local authority exercising its parental responsibility would certainly have to consider very carefully whether it accepted that practitioner 's advice and any advice as to the risks of the transfer of J. from one hospital to another before giving its consent to such different treatment . |
| 9 | I find that an extraordinary statement of policy , because I had always believed that , in so far as it had any justification at all , the Labour party 's commitment to unilateralism , to the closure of bases , to the withdrawal from NATO , was based on a principle — on a deeply held conviction that those things were wrong . |
| 10 | The usefulness of the Grand Plan , even if it had few subscribers , was that it provided a cover . |
| 11 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 12 | I could see it running in her until it overflowed , and as fast as it ran more grief took its place until the lane and the streams ran with grief and all the valley was the colour of grief . |
| 13 | As fast as it formed this spume was whisked away into the cave from where it was sucked into a natural wind tunnel and finally shot from a huge blow hole towards the centre of Fianuis . |
| 14 | I therefore reject the argument on behalf of the appellants in this case , that the Home Secretary is obliged to follow the judges ' views as to the requirements of retribution and deterrence in mandatory life sentence cases , even though it allowed some exceptions . |
| 15 | The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening . |