Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | When this body , which was composed of an independent chairman and two representatives from both sides , eventually reported it suggested that there should be no change in conditions and wages in the industry . |
| 3 | So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years . |
| 4 | Having , with spectacular lack of vision , left the door open to the Japanese in the early BMC-British Leyland doldrum management days , Land Rover 's lethargic parent suddenly realised it had missed the boat in a rapidly expanding market sector , and did something about it . |
| 5 | But now she suddenly realised it fitted him like a glove . |
| 6 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 8 | The entire area was so altered it took her several minutes to establish where their cottage had been . |
| 9 | Boro 's crowd gave their local boy a warm welcome , so warm it burned him off . |
| 10 | No , the two pro , the thing that the two prongs sit in is cracked so naturally say it had to go into a hole that size , right ? |
| 11 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 12 | As I sat there with metal ticking away as it cooled and steam rising around the engines , I tried to open the door only to find it jammed . |
| 13 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 14 | It was not until two o'clock therefore that they became anxious enough to call him on his car telephone — only to find it had been switched off . |
| 15 | He suggested this to a colleague , only to find it had been thought of before . |
| 16 | As a bad sign of liberated times , the opposition tried to call a press conference on the morning of Mr Baker 's arrival , only to find it did not have official permission to do so . |
| 17 | Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled . |
| 18 | I RANG the Israeli Embassy on Boxing Day to protest at their treatment of Palestinian deportees , only to find it closed until December 29 . |
| 19 | A WOMAN driver desperate for a loo ran to a public toilet in Newmarket , Suffolk , only to find it shut — and her car stolen when she returned . |
| 20 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 21 | One moment there was glass , and the next there were bits of glass , drifting out like a jigsaw puzzle where every piece had suddenly decided it wanted some personal space . |
| 22 | I only hope it did not rain , as , for most of the daylight , it did here . |
| 23 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 24 | The fingers were long , unnaturally thin , the skin on them so clear it seemed he could see right through them to the bone itself . |
| 25 | Merely cleaning it took from December 1989 to June 1990 . |
| 26 | ‘ I gave up worrying about Florian 's women years ago , ’ she responded automatically , her cynicism where Florian 's personal affairs were concerned so complete it had almost become tolerance . |
| 27 | Back in those hours I had remained a long time outside the door of North One , being filled by a sorrow so complete it overflowed , and I covered my ears not to hear any more . |
| 28 | I was mean-minded enough to wish it had been for longer . |
| 29 | The stuff was either rubbish , or twee , or so boring it made you want to puke . |
| 30 | The BBC suddenly decided it wanted to stop Doctor Who . |