Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In this process , the tentacles serve another and important function , for the water brings with it dissolved oxygen which Lingula needs in order to respire . |
| 32 | Affection bringing with it devoted support , brought success from a role undertaken reluctantly . |
| 33 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 34 | Joe Kennedy , a Democratic member of the House , is crafting a resolution that would commit America to exhaust sanctions before it used force in the Gulf — and suggests that sanctions should run for at least six months from the passing of the resolution . |
| 35 | The company was engaged in a delicate balancing act ; it could not afford first-rate machinery or transport until it had expanded , but it could not expand ( as a wholesaler at least ) until it improved quality through more sophisticated machinery . |
| 36 | A row of smaller pots alongside it contained leaves from this parent plant from which he was hoping to strike new plants , so far without result . |
| 37 | Beyond it lay Nubia , and beyond that the Land of Punt , an almost legendary region which the Egyptians penetrated only briefly in the imperial years of the New Kingdom . |
| 38 | If successful a place in the ‘ A ’ stream was guaranteed and beyond it lay grammar school and perhaps college or university . |
| 39 | The empire was the natural home of Christianity ; beyond it lay barbarity , all that was un-Roman and uncivilized . |
| 40 | The desire was pulsing in her veins , but beyond it lay emotion , such dark , intense emotion , and she knew the fight was over . |
| 41 | ‘ Mankind has always been alone , ever since it left Earth , millennia ago . |
| 42 | One of them she was not prepared to reveal , since it concerned Fen himself . |
| 43 | In addition , trouble threatened from the mercurial figure of Winston Churchill , who had resigned from the Shadow Cabinet in January 1931 in protest at Baldwin 's acceptance of eventual self-government for India , an issue which threatened to be an explosive one for the Conservative party , since it allied Churchill to the fourth source of discontent : the Diehard element , also strongly represented amongst the grass roots of the party . |
| 44 | How important to it had Angela Morgan been ? |
| 45 | Yes , well I did n't call , but I did said Jane , well you leave , well I 'll leave you to it said Mr Sandy , if you would come upstairs , the policeman and Jane entered her room , please look in the cupboard , I think we 've got a case Sarge , do you mind if I make a quick phone call ? |
| 46 | Picasso himself , on the other hand , said that he became familiar with negro art only after having painted the Demoiselles , and that his introduction to it took place in the Trocadero . |
| 47 | On hearing ‘ Go to it Rose Section — go to it ’ I decided it was Rose Section although the section was too far off to be identified definitely . |
| 48 | And there next to it stood Justine 's name . |
| 49 | His work on it led Koops to prove that paper made from straw , wood , and recycled waste paper could be produced commercially ; this achievement earns him a place in the history of paper-making . |
| 50 | Erm , I do understand that er , you know , we 've got another report coming to us tomorrow on it , and there may be some additions on it disabled people hopefully about getting more people to , disabled people to That that 's another aim we help people |
| 51 | A huge fire was burning , and beside it sat Aunt Emily , dressed in heliotrope and a number of shawls . |
| 52 | A good fire burned in the fireplace and beside it sat Doctor Jekyll , looking white and ill . |
| 53 | If you have the stomach for it minced worms make a wonderful fly food ! |
| 54 | Thinking about it made Carrie feel chokey inside , and helpless , and angry . |
| 55 | The fact that he could do nothing about it made Burun 's enjoyment of the situation all the sweeter . |
| 56 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 57 | The door , — like most of the building that originally stood around it ! — is mid-fifteenth-century and through it went members of the family whose name is now attached to it , even though the family palazzo was elsewhere . |
| 58 | In the nations around it marked admission to adult status in the tribe . |
| 59 | Around it sat Peter Bleech-Palmer , Jay Rossini , Tom , Alice , Billy the Grog Blossom man , Tina and himself . |
| 60 | Because obviously you could do this by hand , you could do it by it took ages and could be very boring . |