Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 2 | The court was unanimous in holding that it had such a right . |
| 3 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 4 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 5 | The United States filed a brief denying the supposedly exclusive character of the Convention , but urging that principles of comity should be applied to determine whether an order should be made under the Federal Rules when the foreign country had unequivocally stated that it regarded such an order as a violation of its sovereignty ; and argued that a District Court could in any event not order the taking of depositions in Germany without compliance with the procedures prescribed by the German authorities ( in this case , those of the Convention ) . |
| 6 | In use I found it to be very acceptable ( to quote Prime Minister Major ) and it ran all the DOS and Windows packages I threw at it — and here 's the rub . |
| 7 | With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks . |
| 8 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 9 | It 's loving-kindness and simplicity , and it lay all the time in your pictures , implicit in every petal and every jug you ever painted . ’ |
| 10 | and it went all the way round , no problem there . |
| 11 | Anna had come into the world feet first and it took all the experience of Mrs Finklestein and the skill of the young Dr Arlen , who had come back at once with Denis , to turn the baby round without strangling the little thing with its own cord . |
| 12 | She did n't need to turn round to know he was standing there , and it took all the will-power she possessed to finish the task she was working on , knowing he was just a few feet away . |
| 13 | She felt the puff of his breath on her ear , and it took all the determination she possessed not to turn round . |
| 14 | Cornflower-blue eyes bored into her own and it took all the willpower she possessed not to look away . |
| 15 | and it had all the paperwork with it , it was gon na be shipped to Singapore . |
| 16 | And three great big bins from from the they called them and I had three bins in my shed that I stored the barley in and I put the moisture extractor into them and it blew It had wee in it and it blew all the moisture out . |
| 17 | Too small , and it cried all the time |
| 18 | It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington . |
| 19 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 20 | He said it matter of factly , as if it happened all the time . |
| 21 | If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit . |
| 22 | But it seemed such a peach of a way out of trouble . |
| 23 | It was a short note but it took half the morning , a thousand attempts . |
| 24 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 25 | ‘ We stayed in a tent for four days and got very wet because it rained all the time , ’ she says . |
| 26 | When it did this the family had been on the point of vesting the house in a charitable trust , which would have secured its future complete with contents . |
| 27 | A route she had been forced to follow , never quite closing the gap , though it narrowed all the time . |