Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 2 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 3 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 4 | Behind it lay two political motives : first , to see the Plan as the first step towards an effective political integration , and second the political conviction that stability and union within Western Europe rested ultimately upon a rapprochement between France and West Germany . |
| 5 | The party disintegrated and with it went one of the very few sensible perspectives on the Free City 's position . |
| 6 | In it collided two incompatible forces , mental and emotional , alienating him from his own tradition — to which he was deeply fettered . |
| 7 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 8 | Near the fireplace a table had been installed , and on it placed two bottles . |
| 9 | Beside it lay two very dead herrings ' heads . |
| 10 | Then for it slit 2 was irrelevant ; we could momentarily have closed it up . |
| 11 | But branches need a facility , it 's not about in-fighting , it 's about something that actually happened within my branch , I 'd like to add that we won the appeal , when the branch went through it raised two questions , we won one , we lost one . |