Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittan , warned that the UK would be damaged and isolated if it failed to participate in the treaty . |
| 2 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 3 | This is partly because , as we have seen , the Court of Appeal showed no inclination to formulate a coherent set of sentencing aims for the guidance of sentencers , and partly because the self-regulatory mechanisms on which it sought to rely in the pursuit of its more limited policy objectives were themselves seriously defective . |
| 4 | It became entangled in the fence . |
| 5 | It seemed to bow in the centre ; for one terrible second she thought that it was going to split . |
| 6 | But it seemed to echo in the quiet of the hall , becoming meaningless , a sonorous groan of a word . |
| 7 | you see with me living on my own for such a long time now , erm it seems er it seemed to get in the way , you had the television and |
| 8 | On top of the thin dress she wore a brightly coloured , predominantly red , Chinese padded jacket ; it seemed to sparkle in the room 's dim lights . |
| 9 | Another Saturday came round with no prospect of a night off when it began to rain in the afternoon . |
| 10 | He had to dodge in to the roadside as an open-backed van loaded with milk-crates passed , its brakelights glowing as it slowed to take in the bend . |
| 11 | ‘ We had over two inches of frosty snow on our sleeping bags as it kept blowing in the tent and we could n't close the door properly . |
| 12 | Had the vibrations of Kershaw reached it as it lay slumbering in the earth ? |
| 13 | Before very long , however , it did open in the West End . |
| 14 | In fact for only 13 per cent was it not much of a whole-school effort , suggesting that mostly it did operate in the way intended . |
| 15 | ‘ It did say in the paper she was between thirty and forty , well nourished and well dressed . ’ |
| 16 | It was raining outside , a thin veil of rain that was blown by the wind so that it appeared to undulate in the air like gossamer curtains . |
| 17 | Until 200 years ago it had stood in the Berlin Stadtpalais for which Fiedler had also executed the panelling , flooring and cupboards . |
| 18 | So too is the reason why , when the matter of their being able to meet was raised in parliament ( after an article about it had appeared in the Sunday Times in May 1964 ) the Home Secretary , Henry Brooke , denied that the pair had ever met which was plainly untrue . |
| 19 | According to the conventional wisdom , fusion required great heat and hence could only have happened when the Earth was being formed ; however , if the Earth is five billion years old , all the helium would by now have risen away , yet it was there in amounts suggesting that it had appeared in the atmosphere only recently . |
| 20 | A plan of it had appeared in the Architects ' Journal the previous Friday , and it also appeared in The Times the morning after the Prince 's speech . |
| 21 | It had appeared in the garden of the villa one morning soon after Nour had returned for the holidays . |
| 22 | The raid took less than five minutes , but the damage suffered by Exeter was greater than it had suffered in the Baedeker raids , and there was greater loss of life , over 250 people being killed . |
| 23 | The parade ground was surrounded by trees and it had rained in the night ; the cobbles under our feet were wet and puddled . |
| 24 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 25 | In 1985 , the United States delegation made similar remarks to those at the earlier Special Commission , but the United Kingdom expert offered a much fuller statement of the position as it had emerged in the Westinghouse and Asbestos Insurance Coverage cases ; but he still identified the Article 23 Reservation in the United Kingdom version as meeting the case . |
| 26 | The message was clear : Beijing University had a special character and wanted to go its own way , as it had done in the past , and lead other universities in the process . |
| 27 | But American imperialism was on the alert to intervene as it had done in the past ’ ( Roy : 1964 , p. 346 ) . |
| 28 | NATO and Warsaw Pact negotiators in Vienna were indeed moving towards broad agreement on ( i ) the exchange of military data ( which began to flow far more freely than it had done in the past ) ; ( ii ) intrusive verification regimes ; and ( iii ) " asymmetric " force reductions owing to Warsaw Pact superiority . |
| 29 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 30 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |