Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 2 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 3 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 4 | The predominant over-view in this Department was that Television held a special kind of mystique ; that writing and producing drama for it demanded special levels of skill which were to be somewhere between the scopes of the Theatre and the Cinema . |
| 5 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 6 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 7 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 8 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 9 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 10 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 11 | Next Computer Inc is going try to stage a NeXTWorld Expo without leaning on Uniforum by holding it at the same time like it did last year . |