Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She released her hair from its restraining band ; it tumbled in heavy red-gold waves past her shoulder-blades , and she shampooed it with her favourite herbal shampoo . |
| 2 | In the first four months of this year it agreed on 18 draft laws ; in the same period last year , it produced 37 . |
| 3 | The Administration decided that it applied to any coal owner who had actively sought to mine the coal up to the day the law was passed . |
| 4 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 5 | You will find it sold under various brand names . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 7 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 8 | Rules was decorated like a Victorian library ; it smelled of superior malt whiskies and very old leather . |
| 9 | For the first miles it led through thick rain forest before climbing along the flank of a long narrowing valley up into the pine-clad highlands . |
| 10 | It led to some job losses but it was justified in the company 's longer-term interests — and therefore the interests of the majority of employees . |
| 11 | In Genet 's case it produced among other things Prisoner of Love , a record of the time he spent with the Black Panthers 's in the US and Palestinian soldiers in Jordan and Lebanon . |
| 12 | However , middle class observers were sensitive to the possibility that the working class husband might not provide ; after all , the bourgeois family model was favoured because of the work incentive it provided for working class men , which presupposed that such an incentive was necessary . |
| 13 | Originally at Udimore , it moved to Great Sowdens Wood , Brede , between 1840 and 1845 , then to Aldershaw , Beckley , between 1892 and 1896 . |
| 14 | It occurred to National Certificate staff that instead of programming say twenty subject assessors to different centres all over the country on a particular day , all twenty could be programmed to visit the same centre on the same day . |
| 15 | The evening was cloudless and warm and after pitching the tent and cooking something called " Hunter 's Goulash " ( a freeze-dried meal that I 'd brought home from a trip along the Appalachian Trail — it tasted like fried sofa stuffing doused with monosodium glutamate ) , I walked up the narrow lane above the youth hostel to watch the sun going down behind Pikedaw Hill tingeing the sky a dusky orange — a wonderful sight . |
| 16 | After the van had been loaded it drove to another loading bay and backed up against a second wagon . |
| 17 | The municipal-bond market has only just got over the jolt it received from federal tax changes in 1986 that removed tax breaks for some large buyers of new issues , notably banks and insurance companies . |
| 18 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 19 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 20 | Despite the involvement of the BBC in its establishment , when broadcasting began in Tanganyika it came under direct government control through the Social Development Department . |
| 21 | If it came to straightforward riot control , the most appropriate force would probably be the 12,000-strong People 's Police Alert units , under the control of the ministry of the interior . |
| 22 | He got his PhD through animal experimentation , but he was n't qualified when it came to recombinant DNA technique . |
| 23 | More important was that German and Italian aid tended to arrive on request , and especially when most needed following Nationalist setbacks or preceding major pushes ; that it was channelled through Franco as Nationalist leader and not , as with Soviet aid to the Republic , through a political faction ; and that it came on easy credit terms with no political strings attached . |
| 24 | After John Wark gave Ipswich the lead Town fired back … and thoroughly deserved their equaliser … it came from new striker Keith Scott … and on this showing he could be the bargain of the season … |
| 25 | It came from green windscreen visors with ‘ Sharon & charles ’ printed on , the ‘ Charles ’ always on the driver 's side . |
| 26 | The Customs seal on the container was still in tact when it arrived at basket-ware importers Ronald Kaufmann 's in Norwich . |
| 27 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 28 | It was in the kitchen and it consisted of three panels side by side . |
| 29 | It consisted of large earthenware pots stacked on top of each other on their sides so that the mouths all pointed one way like a battery of guns . |
| 30 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |