Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms .
2 While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression .
3 The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links .
4 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
5 Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago .
6 Reporters are proverbially heavy drinkers , and it took a few bottles of bonhomie with Johnny Smart before Charles could actually get down to the business for which he had come .
7 I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday .
8 That 's right , er and it had the same number
9 Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister .
10 And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid .
11 When the constable called , he left his bicycle leaning against the signalbox wall and it screeched a little way along the wall before coming to a rest ; the sound was to remain in Mr Daubney 's memory for reasons that will be revealed .
12 He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents .
13 It was one of the few remaining to keep an old cinema organ until it closed a few years ago .
14 if it had a few twists and curls round it and little things like that and bits of gold plate on it I mean that they 'd go for it , but er , because it 's made for its purpose and do n't want it .
15 These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) .
16 taking it cos it did the same thing .
17 I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy .
18 It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size .
19 But it explained a few things — the kindness I 'd thought I 'd detected , his seemingly unreasonable act of firing me …
20 The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ;
21 Broderick has faced more of a problem , since it seemed a few years back that he had stopped ageing .
22 So after it happened a few times our teacher said ‘ We wo n't have cooking like this any more . ’
23 My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail .
24 Out from behind a petrol pump appeared a figure that was female , though it took a few seconds to realise it .
25 Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates .
26 Later in the week , some of us went for an evening swim at a nearby beach — or rather not so nearby , as it entailed a few miles of driving and then a long walk down a deserted track .
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