Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 2 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 3 | The new government decided it wanted its own paper and so bought the Mail , which became a bi-weekly in 1967 and went daily in 1969 . |
| 4 | They watched it chew its faultless way through several plates . |
| 5 | This is done by , when he thinks , ‘ … heard the same complaint and sat there powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 6 | His profound sense of fatalism becomes apparent as early as the last paragraph of his very first speech : ‘ … every few years there is still a case , and as the parties tell me what the trouble is , … the thought comes in that … another lawyer , quite differently dressed , heard the same complaint and sat there as powerless as I , and watched it run its bloody course . ’ |
| 7 | Instead , they manipulated it to legitimize their own rule . |
| 8 | Because of the wholesale integration of the theory and practice of the party into the national cultural formation , at no time did it promote its working-class constituency as an agent of social change . |
| 9 | Did it tumble then , did it hurt its little self ? ’ |
| 10 | Rain pattered gently on the unlined metal above , and he hoped it drowned his panting breath . |
| 11 | Yesterday , Jack Dromey , national officer of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said it underlined his own belief that ‘ ministers and DML managers conspired behind Rosyth 's back to move to one dockyard by the year 2000 . |
| 12 | Objectivity Inc , Menlo Park , California , said it closed its third round of financing last week , an exercise that got started in January . |
| 13 | She said it to cover her tremulous awareness of the fact that she was still in his arms , and began gently to try and pull herself away , but he seemed strangely reluctant to let her go . |