Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It swirled amongst the convent buildings , dulling the spirit — even mine after such a riotous night . |
| 2 | It crashed around the mountain walls as if it would split them in two and she never heard the plane arrive . |
| 3 | It rose above the animal grunts of Dobson , the curses of the yobs , the panting of McEllhoney and hung — long , howling and furious in the night . |
| 4 | His method makes tomatoes taste so startlingly unlike any other dish of cooked tomatoes that any restaurateur who put it on his menu would , in all probability , soon find it listed in the guide books as a regional speciality . |
| 5 | It weaved around the lowland hills , round and round , up and down , until they grew into mountains and had a purple shine that reflected in the sky . |
| 6 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 7 | In Britain it came from the craft unions which , due to the early date of industrialisation , were already well established in the workplace . |
| 8 | It came from the football terraces and the council estates of the big cities , and who gives a George Best who started it — it happened and that 's a fact . |
| 9 | Rima looked at the sun as it hung above the mountain tops . |
| 10 | Tonight the Ministry of Agriculture said it sympathised with the bee keepers , but compensation would n't be paid . |
| 11 | It would be interesting to see how it coped with the moorland cattle . |
| 12 | Yesterday the National Audit Office , the official public spending watchdog , admitted it missed the legal aid bill — run up as Mr Lamont evicted a sex therapist from his flat — when it went through the Treasury accounts . |
| 13 | ‘ Everyone thinks the Amaranth Line was enormously wealthy , but so much of it went in the Sorcery Wars — dear me , I intended no discourtesy , sir . |
| 14 | The government 's new abrasiveness showed itself especially in industrial policy as it related to the trade unions . |
| 15 | He got off the bike at the bridge and left it propped against the suspension cables , then walked to the middle of the swaying bridge , where the gate is . |
| 16 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 17 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 18 | It appeared to the Parish Councillors that the seat had been removed in conjunction with work taking place on the plinth as if to be re-sited further up the hill . |
| 19 | It appeared to the Parish Councillors that the seat had been removed in conjunction with work taking place on the plinth as if to be re-sited further up the hill . |
| 20 | Elsewhere contributors will deal with the circumstances of Gloriana 's creation , and the unfavourable reception it had during the Coronation Festivities in 1953 . |
| 21 | Well it fitted into the easter holidays , erm and in fact it followed the farming seasonal pattern . |
| 22 | The first is that the Wall Street Crash of October and November 1929 , and the economic impact which it exerted upon the world markets , increased unemployment to three millions , about a quarter of the workforce , and created the financial problems which Philip Snowden faced in trying to balance the budget in 1931 . |
| 23 | Oxfordshire County Council was required to pre-set the amount of money it wanted from the District Councils who set a rate . |
| 24 | Yes , and the second time that happened it swept across the standing walls there , and in the near end of the caldarium there was somebody standing by the wall . |
| 25 | Nathan kicked snow off the bridge , watching it explode in orange light as it swept past the navigation lights on the bridge supports . |
| 26 | It was a highly unpopular Act ; nevertheless it remained on the statute books until 1815 . |
| 27 | After seven days of climbing up and down the cliff , we did manage to film the fox , amid thick flurries of snow , as it nosed among the nesting ledges , picking up leftovers — a sequence which will last about two minutes on the screen and took some 56 hours to film . |
| 28 | The language used by the ivory and slave traders as well as by European explorers like Burton , Speke , Stanley and Livingstone , it spread along the trade routes : inland from Bagamoyo , Kilwa and Mboamaji to Tabora and then south towards the gap between Takes Tanganyika and Malawi , west to the town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika , north-west to Karagwe and north to Lake Victoria . |
| 29 | But Trevelyan has brought in over a hundred thousand pounds ’ worth of Indian corn from America , all of it held in the Commissariat depots . |