Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 3 | The smears made the shape of a winged lizard , only it had no proper nose . |
| 4 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 5 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |
| 6 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 7 | So it became a twice-yearly event by necessity , rather than design . |
| 8 | So it became the first PGA Tour venue to lose a tournament because it does n't conform to the anti-discrimination rule laid down by the United States PGA . |
| 9 | I had always loved walking so it seemed the obvious thing to do . |
| 10 | Well and so it split the Labour Party and the from er at that time you know we got five hundred members in with the Labour Party . |
| 11 | And so it did the other night , when I heard two undergrads , giving a list of pleasures which were ( a ) Nazi , ( b ) leading to homosexuality . |
| 12 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 13 | Nevertheless it marked the first step — though only that — in the restoration of royal coinage inside West Francia . |
| 14 | Thus it spread the Labour gospel of women as mothers . |
| 15 | Elsewhere it proved a negative variable , even in areas with a sizeable Jewish presence such as Leeds or Manchester . |
| 16 | A square block of flats was almost finished ; already it exhibited the confident innocence of the usurper . |
| 17 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
| 18 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
| 19 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
| 20 | Qualitatively it lacked the professional touch , and within individual libraries it lacked planning and co-ordination . |
| 21 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 22 | This not only involved the SCCs in vocational guidance and after-care in a formal sense prior to the creation of juvenile labour exchanges , but also it provided an influential role for the ASEA , certainly for its practice . |
| 23 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
| 24 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |
| 25 | On Aug. 20 the Moldavian government ruled these secession moves unconstitutional , and two days later it outlawed the Popular Front-style Gagauz Khalky ( People 's ) Movement . |
| 26 | there was a communicating door in one corner of the room and from behind it came the third movement of the Mozart , which was working itself up to that frantic minor-key Turkish routine which I 've never thought a good enough ending for such a great beginning ; but then that complaint went for just about everything in my life . |
| 27 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 28 | Now it felt a whole lot like being got rid of . |
| 29 | Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention . |
| 30 | But now it included a growing number of raznochintsy , men of different ranks , the children of humbler officials , the clergy , the lower urban estates . |