Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " 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 | It came screeching out of the darkness , and not even the thunder could drown the scream of its menace . |
| 9 | It came to rest just beneath the window of the front room , inches away from where one of its occupants was sitting . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It appeared so unexpectedly that it seemed to leap out of the ground . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | The atmosphere was fantastic at the end as it seemed to build up over the rounds . |
| 15 | I think it was that perpetual low cloud , it seemed to creep right into the house , and then those terrible winds . |
| 16 | I was really pissed off because I was watching the U21 England match , and when it finished turned over during the ‘ adverts ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 22 | It looked terrifying enough with the three thousand members of the Sealed Know Society trying to avoid hurting each other . |
| 23 | Beside her , Ray Plummer was struggling to wind spaghetti around his fork but it kept falling back into the dish . |
| 24 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 25 | I ironed my big net here and it meant to go up in the window there . |
| 26 | It meant starting early in the morning and continuing till late in the evening . |
| 27 | Mrs Ardern vowed to keep open Speke 's closure-threatened Pope John Paul II High School even if it meant opting out of the control of the church . |
| 28 | It meant going back to the village first and taking another road out . |
| 29 | Er because the pit bottom was lit up and it meant going down into the dark , an exciting thought for a young fella , er and so off I went and I was put down on one of the faces , as a lad , and said , Right lad , you want to be collier ? |
| 30 | It meant driving up to the London Passport Office a few times and waiting around there for interminable periods , but I hoped that it was going to be worth it . |