Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And one his suggestion was approved and tried , it wiped out all incidents of damage and robbery . |
| 2 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 3 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 4 | The well-remembered texture of it triggered off vivid flashes of memory , so that past and present blurred together , confusing her still further . |
| 5 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 6 | Despite its low calibre , the weapon was hard to control firing on-full automatic , as it threw out 1,500 rounds per minute . |
| 7 | It opened up orchestrational possibilities for a small group that did n't exist before . |
| 8 | Although the case collapsed and Docherty admitted telling ‘ a pack of lies ’ in court , it opened up damaging wounds within Manchester United , and created a climate of fear and loathing among leading players that stretches to the present day . |
| 9 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 10 | It hung off all sides of his hand like a lump of uncooked dough . |
| 11 | It followed up this insight with a basic marketing principle : that your best prospects are your previous customers . |
| 12 | It brought back sad memories of when I worked as a kennel maid . |
| 13 | This was a brilliant performance , and for me it brought back nostalgic memories of Windrush , and the summer days of 1940 . |
| 14 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 15 | This vast , and as yet unconfronted burden of loan capital is the single biggest factor in the present world debt crisis , since it chewed up vast quantities of money , raising interest rates , and keeping them high . |
| 16 | It took over two years of treatment and months of distress before 28-year-old Bethan Roberts found a cure for acne |
| 17 | Though this point of view is not a new one , it took on increased importance in 1975 when the Labour government obtained a loan from the International Monetary Fund which was conditional upon a reduction of the level of public expenditure . |
| 18 | In terms of the German mark it slipped back 0.59 pfennigs to Dm2.4172 . |
| 19 | When added to the usual treatments for this condition it cleared up persistent ulcers in 40 out of 60 cases . |
| 20 | Last Autumn it gave up all pretence of continuing on in the business and sold off its Personal Mainframe hardware interests to clone newcomer Digital Systems Research ( UX No 407 ) . |
| 21 | It stretched over several hectares of land , its one-storied buildings lying bland and soulless under the surrounding hills . |
| 22 | In the same year , under a maintenance budget , it carried out full-scale dredging on 279 miles of river . |
| 23 | The enormity of this lie was so great that its ripples did in fact spread out one of the lower astral planes as far as the Magical Quarter across the river , where it picked up tremendous velocity from the huge standing wave of power that always hovered there and bounced wildly across the Circle Sea . |
| 24 | The Oceanis thundered down the middle of the harbour , the anchor crunching as it picked up several chains on the bottom . |
| 25 | It set back this possibility for nearly a decade , until after the slump had sent unemployment to twice the ‘ unacceptable ’ level of 1923 and the pattern of politics had once again been changed . |
| 26 | It set out legal penalties for such activity . |
| 27 | It set out these criteria for private sector funding : |