Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it struck Wycliffe as absurd . |
| 2 | And suddenly it struck Greg that there was something else of possible interest . |
| 3 | He smiled to take the edge off his words and suddenly it hit Kate : he was a Bill hater . |
| 4 | Now what happened was originally that I lost compression on pistons three and four and it worked out there was a very thin channel from piston three to four on the head gasket and erm basically it ruined part of the engine and the whole report said that basically I want a new engine . |
| 5 | That 's how long it took Leicester to find a winner . |
| 6 | This particular answer was arrived at by taking a schema that was built as an equilibrium model and then changing one of the terms : naturally it produced dis-equilibrium . |
| 7 | Well , perhaps it contained gold or something . |
| 8 | So it caused chaos |
| 9 | In doing so it reflected Brooke 's belief that the nation was on course to solving the problems of crime through a combination of diligent police methods and technology , the observation and classification of offenders , better informed sentencing decisions , improved treatment regimes in penal institutions , and social work with young offenders and ex-offenders in the community . |
| 10 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 11 | Cray Research Inc , Eagan , Minnesota hopes that flattery will get it everywhere in Japan , and so it chose Tokyo for the worldwide launch of a range of new models in its C90 line to replace the existing Y-MP machines . |
| 12 | So it chose John Major to begin the work of reconciliation . |
| 13 | So it pushed bill up . |
| 14 | It was red and looked too small to be a lorry but never the less it had wheels like the carts in the village . |
| 15 | Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur . |
| 16 | It was a question so typically feminine that somehow it released part of the tension in him . |
| 17 | 1978 's ‘ Kaya ’ was a massive seller , delivering ‘ Satisfy My Soul ’ and ‘ Is This Love ’ to the charts , but generally it found Marley coasting . |
| 18 | The double box was a wonderful link between the three happy friends — as often as not it took Andrew 's horse on as well as Lal 's . |
| 19 | Wingti dismissed the statement as an empty threat , although there were reports that it was being investigated to determine whether or not it constituted sedition , as defined under section 44 of the country 's criminal code . |
| 20 | Finally it produced Bond . |
| 21 | Usually it heralded rains even so , but this year the river gradually subsided once more . |
| 22 | It had a drop down top which served as a table ; when upright it gave privacy to the bather . |
| 23 | And always it gave time to fit the second shaft and loose the second volley , and redouble the boiling turmoil that was held at a distance by nothing more deadly — but there was nothing more deadly ! — than cloth-yard shafts of wood and steel flighted with a handful of feathers . |
| 24 | Gradually it became dark outside . |
| 25 | Gradually it took shape . |
| 26 | Yesterday it announced figures for the first half of 1989 so late in the day that the London market had mostly packed up and gone home by the time the screens showed that profits had risen from Ir £109m to Ir £121m and earnings were up from 21.7p to 25.4p basic . |
| 27 | Israel 's Justice Ministry said yesterday it accepted evidence that Mengele is dead . |
| 28 | LASMO announces that yesterday it filed documentation relating to the proposed listing of its Ordinary Shares on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington , together with documentation relating to the proposed issuance of up to US$150 million cumulative dollar preference shares and up to US$250 million long-term fixed rate debt securities ( Yankee bonds ) . |
| 29 | GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd is doing rather well with its Synchronous Digital Hierarchy transmission equipment , which enables phone operators to reconfigure circuits in seconds : yesterday it won part of a £20m contract for the equipment from British Telecommunications Plc , sharing it with L M Ericsson Telefon AB , and won all of a £17m contract for similar equipment from Deutsche Bundespost Telekom . |
| 30 | I began to see that you might have a grain of truth lurking there somewhere , and the more I thought about it the more it made sense . |