Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've spent all these years thinking about it , wondering how it got in to that house . |
| 2 | His practice , however , was to be mainly in Scotland , and it developed rapidly from that time . |
| 3 | As such , and particularly after Empress Elizabeth 's de facto abolition of the death penalty for criminal offences in 1753 , exile to katorga , followed by perpetual exile in Siberia ( ssylka na katorgu v Sibir ) , was to be retained as the harshest form of punishment in the tsarist penal code until the revolutions of 1917 — though of course it survived far beyond that date under a different dispensation . |
| 4 | And then same the other end , and so it went right through that waggon , and your coupling took the strain for the next waggon and so on and so on until you 'd got the complete train fitted up . |
| 5 | The number of full on-licences fell between 1945 and 1975 , though it increased again after that date : |