Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ .
2 ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank .
3 He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep .
4 The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet .
5 For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška .
6 Was he strengthening his border where it faced the great Angevin arsenal and treasury at Chinon , which would one day come into the hands of his feckless elder brother ?
7 The maintenance of armies on this scale and the continued uncertainty of medieval political life had other effects too ; although it escaped the large-scale violence which affected much of Northern England during the Wars of the Roses , Sussex had an ample share of earlier troubles .
8 The new church , although it incorporated the old church of San Satiro , was named for the Madonna , which explains why the new church is renown as Santa Maria presso San Satiro , the church of St Mary near St Satiro .
9 But although it had the standard minute membership and tatty newspaper hawked erratically round student unions , shopping precincts and Tube stations , Big Flame was different .
10 ‘ I 'll find it , ’ I yelled back at him , then slipped an old Simply Red tape into the cassette just to annoy him , although it had the added advantage that I could n't hear him any more .
11 Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs .
12 It looked tidier , neater than it had the previous day .
13 No sooner had the women 's liberation movement moved from the sixties to the seventies than it saw the economic conditions for its demands evaporate .
14 Through the late Seventies , black America was noted for cultural solidarity of impressive dimensions a shared drive for rights and representation which powered art and music no less than it did the Civil Rights movement .
15 It turned out to be erm used more fully as a family centre , where families would come and spend half a day , than it did the casual pop-in arts centre , which the old arts laboratories or the more conventional arts centre perhaps were directed towards .
16 ACET an claim repayment of £250 so it received the full £1,000 .
17 The Reformation Parliament of 1529 to 1536 attacked the ‘ privileges of Rome ’ and its jurisdiction of the Church , so it recognised the new marriage of the King to Anne Boleyn , in January 1533 .
18 But , of course , as the patient 's immune system recovered and rejected the cancer so it rejected the transplanted organ leaving the patient with no option but to return to dialysis .
19 It is thought that previously matured vitrinite would begin to undergo maturation again once it reached the maximum temperature to which it had been originally exposed .
20 Today , it is the location of the Faculty of Law and of the Europa Institute , and is the centre of University administration ; once it housed the whole University .
21 The noise swelled until it had the jarring monotony of traffic .
22 Stravinsky had started composing Les Noces before 1913 and often played it toDiaghilev , gradually simplifying his ideas until it became the present cantata for voices , four pianos and percussion .
23 Like a forest fire , it started from the individual and grew outwards until it enveloped the whole area of monastic patrons and friends and dependants .
24 The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end .
25 Duregar 's army moved steadily southwards until it reached the eastern entrance to Death Pass .
26 Montgomery sipped his coffee appreciatively and allowed his gaze to wander round the cool green room until it reached the languid man draped in the chair opposite .
27 The final alignment began at Haifa Bay , passed overland through the Jezreel and Bet Shean Valleys , and followed the Jordan Rift Valley southwards until it reached the northern shore of the Dead Sea .
28 Until it opened the only fun was stealing cars , fighting and smashing things up .
29 The strikes ended on Jan. 23 , the day on which the government rushed legislation through the People 's Assembly enshrining the right to strike , but obliging workers to give 15 days ' notice of stoppages , and authorizing the Assembly to suspend a stoppage if it threatened the national interest .
30 The procedure , if it followed the usual course , would have been this : two doctors would be taken to see her and would ask her a few questions .
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