Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | History just burps , and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago . ) |
| 2 | From Avon and the South West Rosemary Gould sends news of a successful rally in Saltford Hall on 5 April , with classes by Doreen Prescott and an appearance by the ‘ bunny girls ’ ( proceeds to South-West training days ) , a fund-raising gourmet lunch ( proceeds to the Society ) , and the problem of hall-lessness in the area — last February it hit members of a regular Thursday class particularly hard : |
| 3 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 4 | As Donald Davie has remarked , his concept of a minority culture was modelled on the ‘ gathered church ’ of the Dissenters — a communion of saints — and the irreplaceable charm of Scrutiny to the post-war undergraduate lay ultimately in the simple fact that on every issue it made things look simple : ‘ a present of perhaps a dozen authors or books or whole periods and genres of literature which I not only need not but should not read . ’ |
| 5 | St Clement 's was one of the better-known wool-churches of East Anglia , and even in winter it attracted tourists . |
| 6 | There 's a walled cemetery on one side and well in those days it had railings round the cemetery on the other side . |
| 7 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 8 | On the other hand if Herakleophorbia was eaten in excess it caused illnesses like tumours and cancer in humans . |
| 9 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 10 | A challenge was issued to the AKA membership in their February 1983 issue of AKA News It gave dimensions for an 80 x 96in ( 203 x 244cm ) Rokkaku and described how teams of two or more could fly against each other as in the traditional Japanese events . |
| 11 | The coming of the rains brought no physical relief to the besieged but in one respect it made things worse ; the smell from the decaying offal and from the corpses of men and animals became intolerable and hung constantly , undisturbed by wind , as a foul miasma over the fortifications . |
| 12 | in big red writing it said snacks , and one er , I could n't make out what |
| 13 | Such agreements on extraterritoriality are common where American forces or advisers are stationed abroad , but in Iran it aroused memories of the humiliating capitulations demanded by the British and the Russians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 14 | Like the documents issuing from central Government it listed aims and pointed to the importance of linking teaching to exploration and experience as a means of helping young people ‘ know the real world ’ . |
| 15 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 16 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
| 17 | In part it involved differences in perceptions about the boundaries of people 's work and what they contributed : in general , professionals and parents tended to see themselves as concerned with the young person and their life as a whole , but they saw others as being restricted in their work and concerned only with limited aspects of the young person . |
| 18 | Of course it made Jews feel more Jewish . |
| 19 | By controlling inflation it created the conditions , by lowering taxes it created incentives . |
| 20 | The Electrophone did not diminish box office receipts — on the contrary it tempted subscribers to flock to the West End to see the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 21 | In an attempt to create a government of national unity it included specialists , politically non-aligned individuals , right- and left-wing politicians ( albeit without the backing of their parties ) , and members of the armed forces . |
| 22 | But on Wednesday and Thursday it caused queues of its own when 100 people attended the JobCentre to be interviewed for the initial eight jobs . |
| 23 | If it was put into freezers it made things cold , but if the same electricity went into an oven it made things hot , so how did it know ? |
| 24 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 25 | the way it swigged litres of fresh water |
| 26 | By the 18th century the castle was beginning to fall into disrepair , and in the 19th century it changed hands several times . |
| 27 | The Three Kings made the final 8 of the competition last year , this year it won hands down after seperate visits from 5 judges , arriving and leaving unannounced . |
| 28 | In London and America it had notices which ranged from very good to absolutely appalling . |
| 29 | At the time it seemed things could get no worse but , inexorably , they did . |
| 30 | Luke stood with legs wide apart , hitting the horse with the whip-handle every time it showed signs of slowing down . |