Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 2 | The decree also declared that the union and republican governments should investigate ways of transforming inefficient collective and state farms into private or co-operative farms , although it ruled out compulsory dissolution . |
| 3 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 4 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 5 | It obviously was n't accidental that it worked out that way . |
| 6 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 7 | ‘ And that one ‘ undred was only because the grahnd sloped like the north face of Iverest of ‘ e ‘ ad only to tap the ball and it got up faster speed than any fielder . ’ |
| 8 | And it brought back last night 's powerful sensations , steaming through her system like an express train . |
| 9 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 10 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 11 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 12 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 13 | but it could n't of been cos it came out last week |
| 14 | The development was the ‘ most exciting discovery of the last decade ’ because it opened up new treatment avenues . |
| 15 | This vast , and as yet unconfronted burden of loan capital is the single biggest factor in the present world debt crisis , since it chewed up vast quantities of money , raising interest rates , and keeping them high . |
| 16 | The actions of Timex in Dundee exude an air of pre-meditation rather reminiscent of Rupert Murdoch 's at Wapping : even down to the fortified perimeter installed by the new management team after it took over 18 months ago . |
| 17 | The devaluation of the dollar in 1971 and the oil crisis which came soon after it ushered in high unemployment and economic stagnation [ Beckerman , 1979 ; Blackaby , 1979 ] . |
| 18 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 19 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 20 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
| 21 | Pte Clegg is one of six members of 3 Para on trial charged in connection with the deaths of the two teenagers , shot dead by soldiers who opened fire on the car as it sped along Upper Glen Road , Belfast , on September 30 , 1990 . |
| 22 | He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him . |
| 23 | Isobel stepped out into the corridor , quiet except for the ever-present low murmur of the station 's output as it played over unobtrusive speakers . |
| 24 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 25 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 26 | None of their trees had been coppiced , so that knolls of tall beeches and huge , spreading oaks delayed the eye as it swept over rolling pastures and ploughed fields . |
| 27 | Despite its low calibre , the weapon was hard to control firing on-full automatic , as it threw out 1,500 rounds per minute . |
| 28 | Challenging the fast-flowing stream , a black and white dipper ‘ swam ’ against the current , half-submerged as it snapped up aquatic delicacies . |
| 29 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 30 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |