Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 2 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 3 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 4 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 5 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 6 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 7 | The system for investing students as or granting was thoroughly reformed and reorganized in the mid-sixteenth century , as mentioned below , but it existed in some form , difficult to define precisely , from well before that time . |
| 8 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 9 | So , between friends lost and friends forgotten , he was very much alone this Saturday night , and picked up the phone when it rang with some gratitude . |
| 10 | The next race was at Long Beach in California , billed as the US Grand Prix West , and though it ran through some streets , its relationship to Monaco , much hyped in the local press , was pretty tenuous . |
| 11 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |