Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry bent down and with one hand lifted the gangplank so that it hung in mid-air . |
| 2 | The kitten was cradled in her arms and she ran her fingers gently up and down its stomach so that it purred with delight . |
| 3 | So , there were no leaks or speculative articles about the paper 's contents and publication was deliberately timed so that it arrived on news desks ahead of the finalised Cadbury Report . |
| 4 | He muttered something unrepeatable under his breath and wiped an exhausted hand upwards over his forehead , a distraught gesture which ruffled the short dark hair so that it stood on end . |
| 5 | Those who were not wearing helmets let their hair flow freely , so that it moved like seaweed in the ventilation breeze near the roof . |
| 6 | For its part , the Conservative Party , under the intellectual leadership of R. A. Butler , came to terms with the changes wrought by Labour from 1945–51 and adjusted to the new mood in the country so that it grudged towards state intervention in support of some kind of equality . |
| 7 | In that time , we were tied to the gold standard , which we found to be inadequate and inflexible , especially as it depended in part on the mining activities in the gold mines of South Africa and the Soviet Union . |
| 8 | Geraldine did not watch the Golden Girls tonight because it clashed with News at Ten . |
| 9 | In a White Paper issued shortly after it came to office , the new Conservative administration reviewed the development of the PES system to date and argued that there should be regular in-depth reviews of spending programmes , on both a departmental and an interdepartmental basis . |
| 10 | Then , just as it seemed in danger of becoming stale and repetitive , it threw up De La Soul . |
| 11 | The catch was usually gutted as soon as it came on board , and the gulls would go in a flock from boat to boat , cleaning up the discards . |
| 12 | Walesa , who attended this session , said afterwards that in order to prove that the new constitution had not been tailor-made for him he would resign as soon as it came into force . |
| 13 | The Thatcher government as soon as it came into office met considerable opposition in Parliament , from public opinion , from local authorities and from various pressure groups , to ‘ cuts ’ . |
| 14 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 15 | Distantly she could feel the tremor of a heart still recognizably her own — though whether it shook with terror or from the first stirrings of a ferocious excitement was hard to distinguish now . |
| 16 | First , it provided a most favourable environment for the development of capitalism — a stable , well-organized political system , with a rational and effectively administered body of law , especially in so far as it related to property and contracts . |
| 17 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 18 | In so far as it distinguished between night and day , it was active at night . |
| 19 | It revealed something she would never have associated with the man whose ironic half-smile appeared in tabloid gossip columns almost as often as it did in yachting magazines . |
| 20 | Now when it came to Paradise Lost , this tension , which is simply excluded from Il Penseroso , is actually inserted into the poem . |
| 21 | Even if it landed on time , I would have the four-hour journey to Hull and it was unlikely that I would make it to the funeral . |
| 22 | The impression was that we wanted sponsors cash even if it detracted from development funds , but nothing could be further from the truth . |
| 23 | I felt incredibly well , but he said to keep an eye on the swollen gland and to see him immediately if it grew in size . |
| 24 | A sensitive pilot could then be so confused that he would be unable to respond logically to the situation , particularly if it happened at night or in cloud . |
| 25 | However even before it came under attack from conservative administrations it had failed on two counts . |
| 26 | Immediately after it came to power , the junta led by General Omar Hassan el Beshir dissolved all trade unions , closed their headquarters and confiscated their property . |
| 27 | An empty , broken corpse , it had walked past Tallis , stepping through the fire ; above the trees the wraith was twined about the ghostly image of the man , dragging it across the canopy , even though it struggled for flight back to the woodland camp . |
| 28 | She estimated that its body was about twice the size of the shuttle , but it seemed much larger because of the mottled membranes that extended like wings on both sides of the creature , and rippled lazily as it swam through space . |
| 29 | She got off the ground so quickly with her public relations it was squashed almost before it came to life . " |
| 30 | And the audience laughed , with relief rather than humor , and from somewhere at the back someone clapped loudly , making the laughter rise again before it subsided into silence . |