Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 2 | Whatever one 's interpretation of these events , however , attempts to explain away the chronological oddity of the attack on Hastings should not be allowed to obscure the fact that in practice it did not stop Richard taking control of the duke of York . |
| 3 | In the last week it had positively snowed letters and business . |
| 4 | And all agree that in any case it did not require skill , merely strength . |
| 5 | It was the twentieth time he had confessed such ignorance , but for the twentieth time it did not satisfy Jane Sharpe who sat naked to the waist at the room 's small dressing-table . |