Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lasted until 1924 , when it got blown up during the Irish civil war . |
| 2 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 3 | Following news that the SQL Access Group is slowing down work on Phases 3 of its SQL Specification ( UX No 385 ) , the group now says it is changing direction to focus on market demands , and admits it got carried away with the academics of development . |
| 4 | Following an LDP conference , the party leadership announced on Sept. 19 that it planned to break away from the coalition which had backed Aquino . |
| 5 | One of its major concerns has always been the securing and protection of fundamental human rights , and it sought to build further upon the UN Declaration of Human Rights of December 1948 . |
| 6 | The sound it made rustling outside in the trees made him feel comfortable and protected . |
| 7 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 8 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
| 10 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |
| 11 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 12 | It came to rest just beneath the window of the front room , inches away from where one of its occupants was sitting . |
| 13 | ‘ It seemed to turn out in the end that the American negotiator did n't have any flexibility and remained on the crucial issues unmoved . ’ |
| 14 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 15 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 16 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 17 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 18 | Sonia said : ‘ It seemed to fit in with the spirit of the Festival — how political change in history is articulated — and celebrated the most remarkable use of language , worldwide . |
| 19 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 20 | Thus it was welcomed because it seemed to bring together on the one hand the idealized liberalism of the l960s and 1970s — when pupils and teachers hoped to romp together through an uninhibited dance of individualized learning , projects , pupil-centred learning-situations , and an end to authoritarian concepts of knowledge — with , on the other hand , the 1980s demand for ‘ standards ’ . |
| 21 | The atmosphere was fantastic at the end as it seemed to build up over the rounds . |
| 22 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |
| 23 | I think it was that perpetual low cloud , it seemed to creep right into the house , and then those terrible winds . |
| 24 | I was really pissed off because I was watching the U21 England match , and when it finished turned over during the ‘ adverts ’ . |
| 25 | It began counting down from a starting position of 30:00 . |
| 26 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 27 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 28 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 29 | Returning to the perspective of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ discussed earlier , we can call into question the extent to which going abroad can legitimately be viewed as a student strategy for maximizing opportunities in China when by necessity it implied turning away from the ‘ motherland ’ in favour of foreign countries . |
| 30 | Finally the tram got underway and as it started to pull up at the end of the track by the foot of Duke Street Hill Carrie was already out of her seat and waiting on the platform at the rear of the vehicle , with Fred at her side gripping her arm for fear that she would fall off before it actually stopped . |