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 . |