Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 2 | There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp . |
| 3 | By that time the flame was also very thin , and where it touched the wall the molten rock spat and ran . |
| 4 | Here , where it cut the highway , the steep bank of the river would give them protection from the full force of the hurricane . |
| 5 | Likewise , Minton 's huge harbour scene , returned from the Lefevre , was sent off to the Royal Academy 's 1949 Summer Exhibition where it attracted the ridicule of Sir Alfred Munnings . |
| 6 | Regent International Hotels , which was recently acquired by Four Seasons , has returned to London — where it owned the Dorchester for a short while — to open the 309-room , Regent Hotel , Marylebone . |
| 7 | It was far easier than might now be supposed to remain ignorant of the deplorable housing in English cities , even where it affected the great majority , as in the London of Little Dorrit , with its 10,000 responsible houses and 50,000 lairs , ‘ where people lived so unwholesomely , that fair water put into their crowded rooms on Saturday night , would be corrupt on Sunday morning ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ You made me squash it , ’ snapped Victoria and pettishly threw it across the room , where it struck the sleeping dog sharply on the flank . |
| 9 | He wrote north for reinforcements on 10 June and the army assembled at Pontefract a fortnight later , where it witnessed the execution of Rivers , Vaughan and Grey before moving south under the command of Northumberland and Sir Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 10 | He wrote north for reinforcements on 10 June and the army assembled at Pontefract a fortnight later , where it witnessed the execution of Rivers , Vaughan and Grey before moving south under the command of Northumberland and Sir Richard Ratcliffe . |
| 11 | The railway crossing was protected by imposing level crossing gates where it crossed the tram line . |
| 12 | Perhaps in a way it was more justifiable in the special case of Grand Prix where it echoed the multiple TV-screen images of which the director , John Frankenheimer , is so fond — perhaps nostalgia for his early days as a director of live TV drama . |
| 13 | On the other hand , where it suited the nobility to retain ownership they could , until 1881 , refuse to embark upon redemption at all . |
| 14 | It arose from a groundswell of opinion in the EC that the internal market would be a success only where it had the support of both ‘ sides ’ of industry and if it was designed to benefit every citizen of the Community . |
| 15 | Compared to all the other seven departments the ‘ stagnated ’ had the lowest score on all dimensions except ‘ challenge ’ ( where it was in the middle ) and ‘ conflicts ’ ( where it had the highest score ) . |
| 16 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 17 | It seemed remarkably near : a flat blue sheet , crawling as in Hong Kong with the skeins of hidden currents , stippled and rippled by breezes , and turning brassy gold where it met the horizon on to which the sun was now setting fast . |
| 18 | Before her a green sea rippled , melting into azure where it met the sky . |
| 19 | Later it was taken over and paved by the Romans from a point north of Oxford to Sturdy 's Castle , where it met the east-west road of Akeman Street . |
| 20 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 21 | As he reached the top of the earth bank where it overlooked the ‘ Windy Ridge ’ car park , he stopped for a breather . |
| 22 | He could see it steaming where it coated the rim and the long-handled wooden spoon . |
| 23 | commenced in 1812 and opened in 1820 , it ran between Paddington , west London , and Limehouse where it joined the River Thames . |
| 24 | Alongside the spring the tree-lined from Carrants Court Led up the hill to Northbrook Farm where it joined the road from Church bridge . |
| 25 | Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder . |
| 26 | " Do n't be sorry , " he said , " I quite enjoyed it , " She looked up briefly then , smiling uncertainly , as though she did n't believe him , He licked his lips , moved forward , put one hand out and touched hers where it gripped the glass , She kept looking at the empty glass avoiding his face . |
| 27 | He felt attached to it so had tattooed the name in his right armpit where it matched the oriental dragon rampaging over the inside of his bicep . |
| 28 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The airline is trying to establish a low-cost European operation at London 's Gatwick airport , where it bought the remains of bankrupt Dan-Air last year for a nominal £1 . |