Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He liked seeing her like that , even although he was cowering under his coat collar trying to keep dry , still surprised at how easily it had gone at home .
2 Unveiling the proposals , Delors called on the United Kingdom government to clarify how far it intended to go towards EMU .
3 Mostly it had to do with Time .
4 Slowly it began to dawn on school board trustees and education bureaucrats that immigrants were not only voters , they were also tax payers .
5 The concern known since 1873 as the Gutehoffnungshütte A.G. was by no means the largest in the Ruhr , but by then it had extended from iron-founding into quarrying and mining iron ore and coal — it produced practically all the 215,000 tons of iron ore and half the 415,000 tons of coal it required — and had diversified into transport , rolling and the construction of bridges , ships , and a variety of machinery .
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