Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
2 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
3 | And after several attempts to break the shell open by picking it up and dropping it onto the rocks , well that did n't work , so the bird picked it up and then from a about a height of twenty feet it dropped it onto the rocks below . |
4 | But what really counts is this indirect usefulness to her , it released her from the patterns of the novel of society and therefore , permitted the flowering of her real talent , a talent for finding and giving dramatic form to impulses and feelings which because of their depth , or mysteriousness , or intensity , or ambiguity , or of their ignoring or transcending every day norms of propriety or reason , increase wonderfully the sense of reality in a novel . |
5 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
6 | It guided him to the stairs , which were straight ahead . |
7 | They would n't recognize it if it hit them between the eyes , of its use . |
8 | I say that I do n't know who the van belonged to , but it drove past when it saw me with the police . |
9 | The court then went on to apply the law as it saw it to the facts of the case . |
10 | The man was such a devastating mixture , she thought hazily , outwardly so cold and enigmatic , but revealing in his kiss a passion so potent it thrilled her to the depths of her soul . |
11 | It reminded him of the zombies he had seen in the horror film at the Empire . |
12 | ‘ What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’ |
13 | ‘ They appreciated the peace it gave them from the ones who wound them up and it gave us peace . |