Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 2 | Too often it smelled of boiled cabbage and steamed fish . |
| 3 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 4 | It led to high costs and corruption in the administration of relief and social unrest . |
| 5 | It provided for 532 flats and maisonettes in eleven storey and four storey blocks . |
| 6 | It bounced on initial impact and came to rest inverted . |
| 7 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 8 | It tasted of candied peel and nuts , and she was reaching for another one when she saw that Lucenzo 's head had lifted at the sound of a child 's piping tones . |
| 9 | In the United States average productivity rose by about one-third between 1955 and 1970 , in Japan it rose by five times and in Europe it doubled . |
| 10 | The newness of the scar , the crudity of the glimpse it afforded into long-past prosperities and distresses , the very fact that no one , since this city was abandoned overnight , had threaded the maze below — a matter of fifteen centuries or more — drew her imagination almost against her will , and she turned her head in involuntary salute and promise , knowing she would come back again and again . |
| 11 | It came from many sources and for many reasons ; but the growth of Romanesque churches in the eleventh and early twelfth centuries was stimulated first and foremost by the flocks of pilgrims who arrived on major festivals and sought shelter and a place to worship in the presence of the high altar of a great church and the shrines of its saints . |
| 12 | Ooh who told me I think it came from Great Grandma and then told her . |
| 13 | Soon , however , a new controversy arose when it seemed to some zoologists and paleontologists that even the large dinosaurs could very well have had a high running speed , at least as high as an equivalent sized modern mammal . |
| 14 | For a few miles , as we hugged the shore of the Strait , the northbound road was paved ; but once we had passed a junction and the track leading eastwards across to Argentina , it reverted to rutted gravel and the wind blew little spirals of dust across it , like ectoplasmic tumbleweed . |
| 15 | Each gang , called a crew , had its own area which it defended against other skins and non-skins . |
| 16 | For the last 100 feet I seemed to drop out of the sky — the flat roof of a house came rushing up at me , and just as I was about to land on it , it dodged to one side and I ended up in a little patch of green wheat . |
| 17 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 18 | Basil de Ferranti was chairman of the company until it merged with International Signal and Control , a takeover which he supported . |
| 19 | Presumably it evolved in these rivers and their tributaries . |
| 20 | It called for financial support and the transfer of environmentally-appropriate technology from richer nations , in return for agreement from rainforest states to safeguard their forests for global benefit . |
| 21 | It reeked of wet straw and stale horse manure , and the old nag the lad fetched smelled sweaty . |
| 22 | A year later it died of old age and she buried it in the garden . |
| 23 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 24 | In spite of the ructions that ensued when the announcement was made — namely IBM 's and DEC 's decision to cut Technology off , it managed to double throughput and more in a matter of months and has contributed around 20% of the spoils in ICL UK 's coffers . |
| 25 | There were explicit reminiscences of the Punjab , and all it meant in imperial song and story , in the minds of Northern Nigeria 's creators as they were creating . |
| 26 | It felt like bad acting and he made a mental note . |
| 27 | It went to thirteen weeks and then it went to twenty six weeks . |
| 28 | Erm so it went to seven months and then you could see us switch back on time and we switched back on in about November . |
| 29 | She switched to London Weekend because it went on all night and watched another film , then a comedy about a Los Angeles police precinct . |
| 30 | Illustrated with engravings of chemical apparatus , it went through many editions and is a landmark in the transformation of alchemy , with its strong mystical element , into chemistry as an exact science . |