Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 . |
| 2 | A goal had to come , and it duly arrived in a moment of magic after 33 minutes . |
| 3 | His feet continued to pattern Ab-u-dah Ab-u-dah on the pavement as it slowly curved towards a junction with a similar , possibly even shabbier street , a terrace without any trees . |
| 4 | Instead it slowly froze in a magma chamber into a mush of coarse crystals . |
| 5 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 6 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 7 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 8 | It eventually collided with a tree on the Lakes Estate in Milton Keynes after a high speed police chase over two miles . |
| 9 | Originally started for the Lobkovic family in 1545 by Agostino Galli , it eventually came into the hands of the Schwarzenberg family . |
| 10 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 11 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 12 | But he took the evening paper suggestion more seriously , and it eventually emerged as the London Daily News , which was changed ambitiously at the last minute into Britain 's first twenty-four-hour ‘ rolling newspaper ’ , aimed at pulling both evening and morning sales . |
| 13 | I think it only lasted through the summer vacation , but it was a , it was an interesting experience , and in fact in , in their own little way the group showed some of the tensions which we found in our seventeenth-century radicals . |
| 14 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 15 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 16 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 17 | She needed a reminder of this trip even if it only served as a warning . |
| 18 | IT MAY SEEM paradoxical to describe Mrs Curdle 's gipsy caravan first , for it only stood on the green for a day or two at the end of April and beginning of May each year . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 20 | The cash value to be placed upon a first appointment as writer or cadet is uncertain , for it obviously depended upon the number of years in which a candidate would draw the salary , but contemporaries no doubt took the possibility of an early death from disease into account when they spoke of a value of £1,000 . |
| 21 | The sword must have noticed him , too , because it suddenly spoke in a voice like a claw being scraped across glass . |
| 22 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 23 | Though the Act of 1547 provided that the surrendered endowments of the remaining 2,374 chantries be applied to public and charitable purposes nationally , much of it merely went into the pockets of Edward VI 's advisers . |
| 24 | It just slithered over the surface , then , as its wheels became clogged , it stopped , settled down , and slowly , inch by inch , began to sink . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 26 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 27 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 28 | And yet , it just clicked after a while that she is , yes I do n't know , we became the best of friends . |
| 29 | Yeah so it must have been alright cos there was no letter it just said with the compliments and just take it |
| 30 | So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression . |