Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great cultural movement like the twelfth-century Renaissance can not be explained in simple terms : the influences and the inspiration which created it flowed through many channels , some of them deep beneath the ground . |
| 2 | Shouldering the gun in the sure knowledge that the Doctor would be seriously pissed off if she let it fall into local hands in this time zone , she drew the grenade from her pockets , and poked her head up just long enough to check the distance . |
| 3 | Geschichte as Kähler used it refers to past history as such ; Historie to history as studied by the means and methods of historical study . |
| 4 | He waited , out of long experience with dominant characters , until a natural break occurred and used it to ask for some background , starting with how long the Minister had known Miss Morgan . |
| 5 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 6 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 7 | The anger obsessed her , but later she turned it on herself and found it mixed with shamed bewilderment . |
| 8 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 9 | The new state comprised the historic provinces of Bohemia and Moravia together with Slovakia which , until 1918 , had been part of Hungary , together with Ruthenia and a northern fringe of the Hungarian plain which , though it was Magyar-speaking , the new state claimed it needed on economic grounds . |
| 10 | Neither do you 'ave to pay a hundred quid like I 'eard it cost at one time . ’ |
| 11 | They wo n't accept with Charles Wychwood that ‘ everything is copied ’ , and wo n't accept his opinion of Chatterton : ‘ Thomas Chatterton believed that he could explain the entire material and spiritual world in terms of imitation and forgery , and so sure was he of his own genius that he allowed it to flourish under other names . ’ |
| 12 | When we first drank claret we heard it called by that name , we were eating such and such a dinner etc . |
| 13 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |
| 14 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 15 | I watched it float in slow motion towards the ceramic shower base , which it cracked neatly in two . |
| 16 | I watched it grow at each end , slowly , like a negative developing in the reflected light of the zebra . |
| 17 | Speights , the country 's foremost brewery , started it rolling with five guineas . |
| 18 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 19 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 20 | ‘ And no matter what hurt it gives to other people , I presume . ’ |
| 21 | She knew it came from far back , because she felt so tiny on the rug , looking up at huge shapes . |
| 22 | Yeah , I thought it sounds like this Liam |
| 23 | He 'd never done it before but thought it sounded like harmless fun . |
| 24 | , I thought it came on seven disks not six . |
| 25 | No sooner did he reach York than he resurrected the York Quarterly and kept it going for five years and nineteen numbers , with the arms of the see on the outer cover , and underneath , ‘ Editor : the Archbishop of York ’ . |
| 26 | He not only created the material world but also , like a divine watchmaker , set it going by an initial injection of motion , and kept it going by occasional adjustments . |
| 27 | On the way back across the lake I dragged my ankle in the cold water and back at camp kept it elevated with cold cloths , then Kaz wrapped it in an ice bandage . |
| 28 | So nobody could I kept that shop , I paid the rent on the shop for twelve months , I kept it closed for twelve months , to get that place going . |
| 29 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 30 | He made it sound like bad TV entertainment . |