Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On waking , it occurred to her with renewed conviction that the experience of two days before might have been no more than a temporary aberration of an exhausted mind . |
| 2 | Because , it occurred to her with heart-stopping suddenness , the last thing in the world she wanted was to be around when Rohan Saint Yves married Antoinette — or anyone else . |
| 3 | It rose to something like 35,000 tons per year but then began to tail off ( see appendix D ) . |
| 4 | It came to something like 60 hours and I decided that I could share it between two people . |
| 5 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 6 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 7 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 8 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 9 | I blame myself , the medical profession , and the government , that it happened to someone aged 43 , who considered himself fit . |
| 10 | it happened to us after forty eight hours ! |
| 11 | They let me have one last look and told me that it belonged to someone in another band — which made me feel really guilty . |
| 12 | The lesson was very strictly controlled although it began with lots of open questioning which stimulated the class to decide where Rome should be founded and some of the reasons for its being in that position . |
| 13 | It combined within itself in eloquent reflection of the age which produced it both a daring and innovative modernity and a heroic and comforting traditionalism . |
| 14 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 15 | Afterwards she thought that , of course she must already have formulated the plan somewhere at the back of her mind ; but at the time it burst upon her with all the excitement of a vision . |
| 16 | It stretched around them in all four directions , empty , enclosed by high wire mesh fences . |
| 17 | To generalize and say that it stood for anything at all was self-delusion and deceit . |