Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [verb] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or did it suit your plans , after that miserable failure last night ? ’ |
| 2 | Nor did it escape his attention that as well as its social role Heaven also gave access to a large group of demonstrably big spenders . |
| 3 | Nor had it stopped her form giving me news that struck me dumb with panic . |
| 4 | I removed my hand gently , and used it to lift my glass of tea . |
| 5 | She found a glowing ember and used it to close her wounds , then forced herself to stand . |
| 6 | The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture — figures , groups and relief work — from Greece and Etruria and used it to decorate their buildings and homes . |
| 7 | What they did is took half and used it to reduce their contributions and it was a large reduction , it was a reduction from twelve to currently five per cent . |
| 8 | She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck . |
| 9 | They defined fire as a means of warmth and used it to heat their dwellings ; as a means of defence and used it to ward off wild animals ; and as a means of transforming substances and employed it for cooking and hardening the points of wooden spears . |
| 10 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 11 | But they did not maintain an image ; or at least , not until an outsider pressed them , assembled one from what he thought were the parts , tried it out on them and modified it to accommodate their comments and additional information . |
| 12 | Having dragged it over , she stood on it with care , and found it brought her eyes level with the frieze . |
| 13 | It is high time that the Minister went to see Anglo-United and told it to get its act together and stop polluting the environment . |
| 14 | A more likely explanation is that Brooke-Rose was flattered by her own wit and allowed it to determine her style of narration . |
| 15 | Once he had called it , appealed to aggiornamento , banned anathemas , included observers of other Churches within its deliberations , and allowed it to have its head against the warnings of the guardians of the old order such as Ottaviani and Ruffini , the consequences were inevitable : the foundations of many hundred years were going to be rocked upon every side . |
| 16 | An exchange of letters with Sir Denis Rooke then followed , and in December the Council basically affirmed the importance of institutional visits as the means by which the CNAA built up a picture of institutions and enabled it to exercise its responsibilities , and asked the Working Party on Partnership in Validation to give consideration to the form such visits should take . |
| 17 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
| 18 | But did it surprised its writer ? |