Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |
| 2 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 3 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 4 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 5 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 6 | It passed out of the family 's hands and became a mental hospital in 1935 . |
| 7 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 8 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 9 | There was always a pause , in the pit , some law , that it levelled out before the spew . |
| 10 | Shafts of bright sunlight pierced the smoke as it welled up from the eaves and spread across the roof in a fine blue film. , Kāli came out into the doorway with a plate of puris and a small bowl of oil . |
| 11 | yeah , but that in which case I think you should try and tie the story in with it became in like the canteen |
| 12 | To their left it led up into the trees . |
| 13 | Moreover , when this was done it led back to the study of linear Diophantine equations , a problem that Smith had already solved ( Box A ) . |
| 14 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 15 | It arose out of an action for professional negligence against a firm of accountants , but the person bringing the action went bankrupt . |
| 16 | It arose out of the publication in the USA of Spycatcher , in which the author , Peter Wright , claimed that MI5 had sometimes acted unlawfully . |
| 17 | I mean , there was certainly an accident element in , in the , in the physical discovery of the manuscripts , but also it arose out of the historian asking questions , out of the interest that he was wanting to explore . |
| 18 | This does mean , of course , that there is no control over the model 's yaw axis ( rudder to you fixed-wing flyers ) during the descent , although the natural weathercock effect of the fuselage will keep it lined up in the direction of flight . |
| 19 | Raising his voice a little , so that it cracked out like a whiplash , he said tersely , ‘ Off wi' thoo . ’ |
| 20 | And the failure of IBM management is that it did n't understand — and still does n't understand — the extent of the mischief the genie of open systems it let out of the bottle with the original open IBM Personal Computer , could wreak . |
| 21 | It bounced along above the pushchair , flashing gold , red and silver in the sunshine . |
| 22 | The producer , who was himself about to take the reins of the tour as it moved on to the regions of Britain as the Coca Cola Hit Man roadshow with Sinitta , Sonia and others from his stable below Kylie on the bill , said plans to take her to a major stadia like Wembley had been quickly dismissed . |
| 23 | It moved over to the north before it reached the camp , so that we never heard much of the thunder . |
| 24 | Like a chameleon , it moved out of the aisle between machines , then stopped , and became utterly motionless . |
| 25 | The Angel of Death was closer now , shadowed in the half-light from the church , the two marble attendants on guard at the mausoleum 's bronze doors , everything as usual except that tonight , I could have sworn that there was a third figure and that it moved out of the darkness towards me . |
| 26 | I HAVE been a patient in a Trust hospital since before it moved out of the NHS in May , and I 've witnessed what that means . |
| 27 | As Mary came running out of the front door it moved off up the drift towards the wood . |
| 28 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 29 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |
| 30 | It shuttled around on the picture . |