Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lasted until 1924 , when it got blown up during the Irish civil war . |
| 2 | It has its new smell still — the perfect red plastic smell , the smell of writing numbers in arithmetic books ruled in squares ; the smell it had before it got mixed up in the dust and plasticine and tangled electric flex in the toy drawer . |
| 3 | I was really pissed off because I was watching the U21 England match , and when it finished turned over during the ‘ adverts ’ . |
| 4 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 5 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 6 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 7 | The cottage , with its lichen-covered roof , looked as though it had grown out of the moor . |
| 8 | Everyone was hungry , but there was no food to be had for it had floated out of the village shop and away . |
| 9 | On learning of the information , the brokerage house sold a large stock position which it had built up in the client 's shares . |
| 10 | If it had come out at the same time , it would have been submerged , and if it had come out afterwards it would have been seen as merely reactive . |
| 11 | It had come out of the blue : a brief note from her , saying that she had to undergo a surgical operation . |
| 12 | It had come in for the attack . |
| 13 | And it had come down to the Valve to see what the Famlio ship was doing there . |
| 14 | The move is an about-face for Rabobank , which recently announced that it had dropped out of the race for the licence . |
| 15 | He had often experienced it , he assured us , but had thought it had died out with the Christian missionary influence of recent years . |
| 16 | The Morning Advertiser of 24 September reported on an in-depth survey that it had carried out into the effects of the guest beer provision . |
| 17 | Widespread evidence indicated that it had burnt down in the later second century . |
| 18 | It had backed up against the patio , completely concealing the ornate wall and steps that led down onto the gravelled walks . |
| 19 | For , so the story went , Pan Chao had decapitated Kan Ying there and then and sent his body back to Rome where it had lain out in the open in the great square , slowly rotting , waiting for the young Emperor , Ho Ti 's triumphal entry into the city three years later . |
| 20 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
| 21 | He had quite forgotten it , or , rather , it had sunk back to the dark , subterranean level from which it had sprung and on which he really did believe his father might kill him some day . |
| 22 | Earlier , the socialist Congress Party for Malagasy Independence ( Parti du congrès de l'indépendance de Madagascar — AKFM-Renewal , formed after the March 1989 presidential elections — see p. 36678 ) announced on Oct. 6 that it had pulled out of the ruling coalition . |