Example sentences of "it was [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seemed that malais had a sixth sense , a special antenna for propositions of this kind ; it was absorbed in the mother 's milk . |
| 2 | The area round it was hidden in the penumbra . |
| 3 | And you said it was done in the forest . ’ |
| 4 | But as this phase of radical Right optimism died away from 1953 , it was replaced in the hard-core by professed adherence to the Nazi past and outright glorification of Hitler . |
| 5 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 6 | It was placed in the church in 1911 by the Tennyson Centenary Committee and was dedicated by the Bishop of Lincoln . |
| 7 | It was placed in the compost heap of the Dean 's house , when ? ’ |
| 8 | It was a fine effort , particularly as it was achieved in the company of Arnold Palmer , still a great favourite here , whom Wolstenholme outscored by three strokes . |
| 9 | It was matched in the East by Sir Edward Dalyngrydge 's creation at Bodiam , ‘ crenellated ’ in 1385 , a great square surrounded by a wide moat on the upper reaches of the Rother . |
| 10 | Morphology was a descriptive rather than an experimental science , but it was conducted in the laboratory rather than the field and could thus be presented as a symbol of modernization . |
| 11 | It was argued in the Senate that presidents were using executive agreements not for minor matters , as originally intended , but as vehicles for entering into major foreign and defence policy commitments without reference to congress . |
| 12 | It was erected in the entrance tower of the Carrara Palace at Padua in 1344 , but was destroyed in the assault on that town by the Milanese in 1390 . |
| 13 | In one instance , it was believed in the family that one sister had visited their father during his final illness and had persuaded him to make a new will in her favour , directing his hand as he signed it . |
| 14 | The ridge survived until a storm in 1910 , when it was breached in the middle , thus causing the harbour to revert to its former double spit state . |
| 15 | Lord Hanson 's cook , however , had the foresight to bring its seed back to England and it was grown in the Apothecary 's Garden at Chelsea . |
| 16 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |
| 17 | The church comes from Gol in Hallingdal and dates from 1200 ; it was re-erected in the museum in 1885 . |
| 18 | 18.2 Any such notice shall be in the English language and shall be considered to have been given at the time when actually delivered , sent by telefax or telex or in any other event within 14 ( fourteen ) days after it was mailed in the manner hereinbefore provided . |
| 19 | It was boring in the passage but also , it proved , necessary , as one or two passengers came back for a look at the corpse . |
| 20 | In the first instance it was exemplified in the title of the campaign introduced in the UK in 1977 called ‘ Save It ’ . |
| 21 | Although it was begun in the sixteenth-century the building was not actually completed for over a hundred years , the upper floor being added in the seventeenth-century . |
| 22 | She could reach the chapel from here , but it was situated in the forebuilding , beyond the staircase turret at the other end of the corridor , and , though a rushlight burned in its sconce above the steps leading to Matilda 's rooms , the rest of the passage lay in heavy darkness . |
| 23 | It was kept in the cathedral of Funchal until the chapel in Machico was rebuilt and the statue was returned in 1815 . |
| 24 | For the rest of the year , it was kept in the crypt of the museum behind the Monuments aux Morts . |
| 25 | er say er yeah within say er two days or worse still , you could it the same day actually , because they used to have those erm er Have you seen them , those an oval tin with two ends , er it was split in the middle . |
| 26 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 27 | Poo I think it was laying in the boiler cupboard on top of the shoes this morning . |
| 28 | It was announced in the House of Commons on 26th February 1975 that the current restrictions on agricultural rents should cease to operate from 28th May 1975 . |
| 29 | It was decided in the case of Tominey v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1984 S. L.T. ( Sh . |
| 30 | It was decided in the spring of 1892 to repair and rebuild the tower and as the Vicar in his letter puts it " To rebuild as an ornament to the village with a good clock in it , to make the fabric itself what it should be for a wealthy parish such as ours " . |