Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 2 | But it got him in the end . |
| 3 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 4 | When he sat , it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster , like a small moustache . |
| 5 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 6 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 7 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 8 | To him it became something between a playroom and a church . |
| 9 | Soon it became something of a prop . ’ |
| 10 | It became something of a ritual that the cars stopped at the Oxford Hotel in Marton , where a photographer snapped the passengers . |
| 11 | Owen confessed that it became something of a joke to say , at the end of telephone calls , ‘ Say hello to our friend Ivan . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , it became something of an asset in formulating a public persona . |
| 13 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 14 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 15 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 16 | It changed itself into a stream of electronic signals and dived head-first into the TARDIS . ’ |
| 17 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 18 | Women who entered voluntary work during the inter-war years did so largely because it provided them with a diversion from household routine . |
| 19 | Served up as B fodder , at least it provided him with a salary , albeit on rock-bottom union rates of around $300 for a full working week , which assured him a place barely above the poverty line . |
| 20 | Suppose that within the five-year term the Government were defeated in the Commons on a topic so important that it regarded it as a matter of confidence in itself . |
| 21 | Certainly , it regarded itself as the leader of the Six : the British proposal would weaken that position . |
| 22 | When the BUF developed it created something of a stir as the various political parties adjusted to its presence . |
| 23 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 24 | It caught her on the elbow of her right arm and sliced right through the botched teflon sutures that held the forearm below it in place . |
| 25 | Even more so as it caught me with a mouthful of pancake and hot sauced prawns . |
| 26 | It found itself amongst the stockwork of veins and rich ore was being found continually . |
| 27 | At one time I had this scrubbing brush and I used to spend the whole day scrubbing and I used to have a big pan and I used to boil my clothes up in it — it drove me round the bend … |
| 28 | Subtitled Diana Unclothed , it compared her to the Lady of Shallott , Greta Garbo , Sleeping Beauty and Mother Theresa . |
| 29 | It caused something of a stir north of the border and was reprinted as a pamphlet by the ultranationalist 1320 Club ( 1320 being the date of the signing of Robert I 's Declaration of Arbroath ) . |
| 30 | In view of what I am about to relate , it would not be proper of me to identify the manoeuvre any more precisely , though you may well guess which one I am alluding to if I say that it caused something of an uproar at the time , adding significantly to the controversy the conflict as a whole was attracting . |