Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [adj] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras .
2 She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso .
3 Do you know that it took all my self-control not to throttle that dim-witted boy ? ’
4 I mean that , that have to hold top and bottom , you put something in the soil and it gets all its nourishment in the soil and that
5 The images his words had triggered were running riot in her brain , and it took all her strength to blot them out .
6 She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her .
7 Its tension caught the reader , there was an emotion in it , shared between him and them and it turned all his attention away from himself on to the subject matter he was speaking .
8 His vigorous and provocative Unionist polemic against the importance of ‘ the constitutional question ’ is bracing , but it renders comical his charge that the SNP ‘ is a party of no compromise ’ .
9 And I tried to do a pattern but it sent all my eyes crazy counting these
10 She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans .
11 Mr Wallace acknowledged that his own ideas for a Scottish parliamentary council were unlikely to proceed , but a campaign for a multi-option referendum was ‘ the only thing we can all unite on as it encompasses all our differences ’ .
12 As it happened all his discoveries went against the Peripatetic views , and as he advanced so the attacks on him grew , largely because the lesser ones among opponents saw their cosy lives of repetitions of dogma in danger .
13 As soon as a domestic hen chick hatches it starts pecking at grains that look like food , and as it grows older its aim at food grains improves .
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