Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [prep] [det] [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 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 3 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She said Thresher was aware of the receipt for £18.37 and had established that it belonged to another customer . |
| 9 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 10 | We had nothing at all to live on ; but one day I received a sum of money that we managed to divide up so that it lasted for many weeks , just so much a day . |
| 11 | By 1820 , it was owned and worked by Robert Wight , who continued to manufacture cloth there , the mill becoming known as Wights Mill , a name that it retained for many years . |
| 12 | It 's rather nice to think that it happened in that way , that it was done overnight . |
| 13 | When the war was over , an overhead inspection tower was fitted to its roof , and it continued in this role until superseded by car 31 ( 754 ) in 1934 . |
| 14 | And it led to all sorts of ‘ self-management agreements ’ between enterprises on the reallocation of foreign exchange . |
| 15 | When you played Hammersmith a couple of years back and it got to that point in the song , I looked around and a lot of people were craning their necks , checking out how that was done . |
| 16 | The conclusion we are entitled to draw from these findings is that , in general , female usage tends towards the more ‘ careful ’ end of the stylistic continuum and male usage towards the more ‘ casual ’ , and it seemed at this stage of our research that we had some justification for the claim that in linguistic variation , sex-differentiation is prior to class differentiation and need not be interpreted as subsidiary to class ( as it normally has been ) . |
| 17 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 18 | You knew when it was supposed to leave Kirkwall and it went past this island or that one but |
| 19 | The post office was started in 1860 ; the first postmaster was Mr Robert Harker and it stayed in this family for 100 years . |
| 20 | When it was formed in 1919 AIB was a branch of the old Air Ministry which controlled civil aviation as well as the Royal Air Force , and it remained in that department until immediately after the Second World War when the Ministry of Civil Aviation was formed . |
| 21 | It also stressed that the quotas constituted a derogation from the principle of non-discrimination on grounds of nationality , and it referred in that connection to the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 . |
| 22 | Because usually this morning we usually have video and it feeled like this morning all the time . |
| 23 | Yes I did have a refriger I had , we bought a refrigerator and er a cooker and it sat in that recess there , that was our big buy when we first came , er we had a bedroom suite when we came here and we had sufficient furniture to , to erm furnish the sitting room and we had er a suite of furniture in here erm |
| 24 | The study of the proposed L.R.T. system had been ordered by the Department of the Environment , and it appeared to all intents and purposes that any future for the Comber-Dundonald portion of the line , at least as far as the Trust was concerned , were dead and buried , as it seemed evident that the D.O.E . |
| 25 | But he had been very kind to her the past few weeks , and she knew he was right , that the showing would be a fiasco if it went on this way . |
| 26 | There must be some height , call it h , such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height , but would just survive if it fell from a slightly lower height . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Nor does the familiar bogy of the French Minister of Education , said to know exactly what every child at school is learning that minute , when he looks at his watch , seem so very alarming even if it conformed in any way with the truth . |
| 29 | Very often people are almost haunted by one particular experience and they think to themselves , ‘ Oh no , I could n't stand it if it happened like that again' . |
| 30 | If you are not feeling as well as you did at the beginning of the week , go back to the Stage I diet for two or three days ; your weight should fall again if it rose during this week . |