Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Equally , if it decided to push ahead against a company , but withdrew in the face of firm resistance from the directors , word would soon get about that it was a pushover . |
| 4 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
| 5 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 6 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 7 | Formed in May 1983 and formally launched that August , it had grown rapidly into a mass-membership anti-apartheid organization , its initial focus being its opposition to the regime 's " tricameral " constitutional plans [ see p. 32599 ] . |
| 8 | It had developed largely as a realistic response to a political environment shaped externally by the rules and conventions of public accountability and internally by the central position of doctors . |
| 9 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |