Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 5 | Originally started for the Lobkovic family in 1545 by Agostino Galli , it eventually came into the hands of the Schwarzenberg family . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It just slithered over the surface , then , as its wheels became clogged , it stopped , settled down , and slowly , inch by inch , began to sink . |
| 15 | Yeah so it must have been alright cos there was no letter it just said with the compliments and just take it |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He apologised in advance if he should be too expert , but Jessica conceded graciously she had nothing against technique per se , it just got in the way of animal passion sometimes . |
| 18 | It just went against the grain . |
| 19 | I do n't know , it just came through the post this morning . |
| 20 | Within this regime , as it already existed by the end of the Civil War , the salient features were the prominent , but in no sense governing role of the FET ; the restoration of the Catholic Church to a position of monopoly in education and of powerful cultural influence ; the ruthless repression of all forms of opposition ; and above all , the unassailable position and total dominance of Franco himself . |
| 21 | If the Vietminh still seemed to be the only movement capable of achieving the fulfilment of the people 's aspiration to national independence and to social justice , it nevertheless ruled with the aid of physical terror and moral constraint . |
| 22 | The American was pleasant enough but it soon emerged from the conversation that the two women had little , if anything , in common . |
| 23 | From then onwards Waterston stayed in Illchester ownership for two and a half centuries but , since they preferred the grandeur of Melbury , it soon degenerated into the farm that it was in Bathsheba Everdene 's time . |
| 24 | This was effectively the same as the Spanish Pyrenean of northern Navarre and had already been crossed to a large extent with Limousin and Garonnais before it finally disappeared into the Blonde during the 1960s , leaving only the rare Béarnais as a purebred remnant . |
| 25 | Franco 's concern not to risk backing the wrong side in a European war was also reflected in Spain 's official position with regard to the conflict when it finally erupted in the autumn of 1939 . |
| 26 | He also made history as the first judicial nominee to be confirmed without the recommendation of the Senate judiciary committee , which held confirmation hearings on Sept. 10-27 , but deadlocked seven to seven when it finally voted on the motion to recommend the nomination , and then voted 13 to one to pass along the nomination to the entire Senate with no recommendation . |
| 27 | It thus called for the observance of a " day of solidarity with the brotherly Iraqi people " in support of a nationwide general strike on Jan. 28 . |
| 28 | It thus gained for the coal industry what all organizations strive for , namely rational control of the environment through being better able to predict its fluctuations . |
| 29 | It thus contributed to the ineffectiveness of much of the warfare of the period . |
| 30 | I mean there were erm draper 's stores , there were furniture stores , there were all the butcher 's shops , grocer 's shops , greengrocer 's shops , chemist 's shops , ladies ' outfitters , hatters , tripe shops , er seed merchants , er bakers , millers , erm I ca n't say there were wallpaper sop shops and paint shops as such because there was n't such a thing as a wallpaper shop specializing it usually went to the hardware shop for wallpaper and paint . |