Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officially 20 acres of arable land was regarded as standard , but with some of it left fallow each year , many people must have got by with much less in practice , for in East Anglia , c . |
| 2 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 3 | And so the year 1798 drew to a close , and with it came another crippling winter in a decade of crippling winters . |
| 4 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 5 | The bed looked neat , smooth and austere , and the books on the table beside it had dark sober covers and were obviously devotional books and anthologies of poetry . |