Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [adv prt] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 5 | 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 . |