Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 2 | Desperately needing to justify her own actions , minimise her behaviour , she thought it all through again from the beginning until it made even less sense than it had before . |
| 3 | The wall was as transparent as glass , but it was as if it revealed only another wall of uniform greyness . |
| 4 | If it happened more this time , it may simply be that , with a higher-than-average turnout ( sunny weather , and so on ) , more people who normally would n't have bothered to vote , did so — and such half-hearted democrats are precisely the ones unlikely to have filled in the form . |
| 5 | And writing it out in a half hour or hour lesson was almost impossible because it took too many sheets of paper . |
| 6 | Emil himself and Oliver delivered the necessary , although Emil on his return said he hoped this was n't going to happen at lunch and dinner also , because it took too much time . |
| 7 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 8 | Aldershot Town 1992 was set up by fans of the original club when it folded earlier this year with huge financial problems . |
| 9 | There was outrage when it emerged recently that home care support for severely disabled users of the new Independent Living ( 1993 ) Fund would be capped at £500 . |
| 10 | This means that the value of a firm would indeed rise as it took on more debt because it was paying less of its earnings out to the taxman . |
| 11 | No Women 's Open was held as it attracted so few entrants , so all gained automatic entry to the Grand Prix . |
| 12 | I remembered Gerry saying she thought it must be a radio phone as it had so many digits . |
| 13 | They followed the porter along the serpentine path , then suddenly they were through the trees and into a glade ringed by clumps of trees , silent except for the gurgle of a small brook as it splashed down some rocks which thrust up out of the ground like the finger of a buried giant . |
| 14 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 15 | Images are powerful and subliminal , and this one was quite discriminatory as it projected precisely that Family of which society so approves . |
| 16 | In this it was perhaps too successful , for it provoked so much hostility from the car lobby that reprinting of the book ceased some two years after it was first published . |
| 17 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |