Example sentences of "[coord] it [adv] [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another exception to the proposed pattern , is the 34 acre town at Caister-by-Yarmouth ; this is the only town apart from Brough-on-Humber , which occupied an exposed position on the east coast , vulnerable to sea-raiders and it probably required this protection , but it must also have had a special relationship with the nearby Saxon Shore fort at Burgh Castle . |
| 2 | Bordeaux was described as a ‘ commune , by John in 1206 and it clearly possessed many rights of self-government . |
| 3 | I had witnessed Sam emptying that box many times , and it always contained several pounds , a fortune in those days . |
| 4 | The " fat " was well-spaced work , with less solid text , and it therefore took less time to set a page . |
| 5 | She cried fairly easily and it usually had some kind of effect . |
| 6 | Nominally , it opposed the colour bar , but it also opposed any action against it as well as the formation of African trade unions . |
| 7 | It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible . |
| 8 | But it firmly rejected any idea of reforming the system , saying : ‘ We are against suggestions and demonstrations which aim to lead people astray and change the constitutional basis of our state . ’ |
| 9 | After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India . |
| 10 | But it certainly seemed that way . |
| 11 | But it certainly saw some action Last occupied in 1315 it was the ancestral home of the Fitzhughs but passed by marriage out of the family when the last of the male line died in a hunting accident while pursuing his quarry clean over a cliff , if local legend is correct . |
| 12 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 13 | I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us . |