Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture was clearly in her head , but it brought none of the old bitterness , because now she was seeing Alain , imagining him , and it wiped away the old grief . |
| 2 | The pain was intense , gripping her with its cruel talons , biting deep , but not so deep that it wiped out the sudden rush of anger she felt at his blind stubbornness . |
| 3 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |
| 4 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 5 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 6 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 7 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 8 | The scream cam from quite a way away , but it penetrated easily the thick walls of the study . |
| 9 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 10 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 11 | The Rowley Mile was certainly no place for a scantily-clad 56-year-old , but needless to say in Piggott 's extraordinary case it made not the slightest difference . |
| 12 | Ahead was pure blackness ; I tried closing my eyes ; it made not the slightest difference . |
| 13 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 14 | In practical terms this meant that , say , creating the illusion of a glass of wine was relatively easy , since it involved merely the subtle shifting of light patterns . |
| 15 | It let out a long clang . |
| 16 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 17 | This was a short-lived club , but important if only for the fact that it drew up the first Breed Standard in 1901 . |
| 18 | She stared , hypnotised , not daring to move again as he resumed his task , and she fought her physical responses , rigidly blocking out the sensual touch of each curling finger as it hooked up the criss-crossing lace . |
| 19 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 20 | " Private Eye " fell into this trap when it beat off an interim injunction from Robert Maxwell by promising to prove at trial that he had financed Neil Kinnock 's foreign travel in the hope of being awarded a peerage . |
| 21 | It proposed not a planned economy in which the State would direct resources but a managed one where the State would influence the use of resources through its fiscal policy . |
| 22 | In the first stage , however , it proposed only the closer co-ordination of EC currencies through the ERM . |
| 23 | It filled in an important gap in her information . |
| 24 | yeah , but it came back the other day did n't it ? |
| 25 | It seemed rather an historic moment , but I put the thought aside ; one must not get sentimental , and everything had been done properly , had been left in order and as it should be . |
| 26 | It seemed rather an odd thing to do , but perfectly in tune with the occasion . |
| 27 | It seemed quite a tall order at the time but in practice it worked out well and proved to be a most enjoyable experience as well as one of our more memorable tours of duty . |
| 28 | It heralded not a new age of dispersal , but a return to the bad old days of technological free-for-all-a return to that madness that had once before almost destroyed Chung Kuo . |
| 29 | It rained solidly every single day in fact , and it did n't stop as we were queuing to drive on to the ferry . |
| 30 | Once this new mode of production began to replace the old , it threw up a new class of owners . |