Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [prep] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that case the railway company had carried the parcels of other persons at a rate less than similar parcels were carried by it for the plaintiff . |
| 2 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 3 | Several other writers were attracted by it in the 1960s and 1970s : Douglas Oliver , in The Harmless Building ( 1973 ) , for example ; Muriel Spark , at several stages in her fiction ; and Giles Gordon , who follows the second-person narrative of Michel Butor 's La Modification ( 1957 ) , making ‘ you ’ the protagonist of his Girl with red hair ( 1974 ) . |
| 4 | Instead , the architects , McKay and Forresters , of Glasgow , were presented with it at the Edinburgh reception . |
| 5 | This was partly because the traditional school library catalogue , devised by teachers untrained in library methods , aimed to meet only the very simple demands which , alas , were made of it in the long decades of neglect . |
| 6 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 7 | The army would also reopen its ranks to Hutus , who were purged from it after the ethnic warfare of 1972 . |
| 8 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 9 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 10 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 11 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 12 | He was driven to it by the logic of interest and events . |
| 13 | In its aftermath Mrs Thatcher apparently took greater care to consult the Cabinet more fully and was overruled by it on the proposed sale of British Leyland to the US-based General Motors . |
| 14 | She was pitchforked into it by the early death of her husband James V. But this woman from France made sure that she learned about the country she would control . |
| 15 | His wife Janet said that she had not seen the quarry after a fence was put round it after the deaths . |
| 16 | It is understood he initially thought of going there at the weekend but was advised against it by the police . |
| 17 | Then he saw the hand , its fingers curled , as if trying to drag the sprawled body that was attached to it across the room . |