Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 2 | During the first decade it seems , on average , to have run below £200,000 , although it sometimes exceeded that figure . |
| 3 | But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self-deception of the ‘ conviction ’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self-destruction . |
| 4 | It is a clear indication of the quality of Vic Rouse 's goalkeeping ability that he succeeded the great Roy Bailey between the Palace posts , then went on to set up a club record 238 Football League goalkeeping appearances ( since exceeded only by the invincible John Jackson ) , and that it then took another goalkeeper destined for the 1st Division in Bill Glazier to oust him . |
| 5 | On Nov. 7 the newly elected Moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church , Pieter Potgieter , confessed his church 's guilt at the role it had played in establishing apartheid and said that it now considered that policy to be wrong . |
| 6 | The Utica/St John 's posse denies , however , that it ever had any kind of gang affiliation or that the current troublemakers are connected with them . |
| 7 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 8 | Bordeaux was described as a ‘ commune , by John in 1206 and it clearly possessed many rights of self-government . |
| 9 | I had witnessed Sam emptying that box many times , and it always contained several pounds , a fortune in those days . |
| 10 | The " fat " was well-spaced work , with less solid text , and it therefore took less time to set a page . |
| 11 | She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect . |
| 12 | Nominally , it opposed the colour bar , but it also opposed any action against it as well as the formation of African trade unions . |
| 13 | It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible . |
| 14 | But it firmly rejected any idea of reforming the system , saying : ‘ We are against suggestions and demonstrations which aim to lead people astray and change the constitutional basis of our state . ’ |
| 15 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 16 | But it certainly seemed that way . |
| 17 | But it certainly saw some action Last occupied in 1315 it was the ancestral home of the Fitzhughs but passed by marriage out of the family when the last of the male line died in a hunting accident while pursuing his quarry clean over a cliff , if local legend is correct . |
| 18 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 19 | I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us . |