Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow made horizontal lines of white where it had lodged between the timbers . |
| 2 | And this , in spite of some effort on my part to prevent it , led to the subject of science fiction , and where it had gone since the original efforts of Swift and Verne and H. G. Wells . |
| 3 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 4 | So far discussion has been limited to discussing the beneficiary 's ability to recover the trust property where it had passed into the hands of a third party : in principle the beneficiary was able to follow it , but his claim could be barred depending on the nature of the acquisition by the third party . |
| 5 | I was carved up by a let-me-through Porsche , with a chap at the wheel chatting into his Deutsche Telekom mobile phone , and then caught up with the car again a few kilometres further on , where it had slithered on the wet cobbles and collided with an antique tram . |
| 6 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 7 | In 1886 he became headmaster and in 1895 moved the school into premises designed by his father in Bardwell Road , where it became known as the ‘ Dragon School ’ , starting the long Lynam tradition which continued with his brother ‘ Hum ’ and nephew ‘ Joc ’ . |
| 8 | It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable . |
| 9 | Although it had to come to the before it was accepted . |
| 10 | The Communist Party of Great Britain , which was thus excluded from the Labour Party on its foundation was by far the most important Left minority in existence in the 1930s although it had to compete with the ILP for that position at least until 1935 . |
| 11 | The German explanation for the invasion of Belgium and Holland on 10 May 1940 — that it had been necessary in order to forestall a breach of neutrality by the enemy — carried less conviction than it had done in the Scandinavian operation . |
| 12 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 13 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 14 | Damaged by the Gulf crisis and still without having achieved electoral reform , Kaifu 's position by the end of 1990 looked considerably less secure than it had done in the immediate aftermath of the February elections . |
| 15 | Mr Fallon said the Government was providing much more money for training than it had done in the last recession in the '80s . |
| 16 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |
| 17 | The LDP 's share of the vote fell by more than 3 per cent compared with the 1986 lower house elections , and the party won 20 seats fewer than it had possessed at the dissolution ( although 11 independents were later reported to have joined , thereby bringing its total strength to 286 ) . |
| 18 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 19 | It was there that she saw the man lying on the plastic strips of an off-white metal reclining chair beside the pool , which was undoubtedly smaller than it had looked in the photograph . |
| 20 | Once it had withdrawn from the BCOA , Pittston rejected the union contract and cut off health benefits to 1,500 widows , disabled miners , and pensioners . |
| 21 | Once it had burned through the clinker was broken out , loaded into barrows or carts and taken to the grinding mills to be ground into a fine powder . |
| 22 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |
| 23 | But if , without derogation of the Divine power , we may conceive the existence of such ministers , and personify them by the term ‘ Nature ’ , we learn from the past history of our globe that she has advanced with slow and stately steps , guided by the archetypical light , amidst the wreck of worlds , from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate idea under its Ichthyic [ fish-like ] vestment , until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form . |
| 24 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 25 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 26 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 27 | What you write may well be funny , but if it had grown to the extent where it overweighs the actual book you are writing , a piece of comic crime fiction , then you will be spoiling the whole . |
| 28 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 29 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 30 | In the event of your death before the date of maturity your TESSA will be treated as if it had matured at the date of death and gross interest will be paid up to and including that date . |