Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well , perhaps it contained gold or something . |
| 4 | So it caused chaos |
| 5 | So it pushed bill up . |
| 6 | It was a question so typically feminine that somehow it released part of the tension in him . |
| 7 | It had a drop down top which served as a table ; when upright it gave privacy to the bather . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Gradually it became dark outside . |
| 10 | Gradually it took shape . |
| 11 | Israel 's Justice Ministry said yesterday it accepted evidence that Mengele is dead . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly , he would think an action the better the more it augmented happiness , but it seems that it is only wrong , for him , if it actually augments unhappiness . |
| 16 | During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller . |
| 17 | It may also be evaluated more specifically in terms of : how effectively and efficiently it produced evidence about the state of Art teaching in the school ; how reliable and valid that evidence was ; how validly that evidence was interpreted in arriving at the conclusions embodied in the final report ; and the extent to which the review process was an effective means of motivating those involved to act upon its conclusions . |
| 18 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 19 | Well it had department erm Frank |
| 20 | Presumably it saw service for iron working at some time , although in later life it was used for corn grinding , saw milling , as well as being operated for a time as a maltings . |
| 21 | Soon the mask of mob rule and anarchy was replaced by the naked face of despotism , and eventually it gave way to Napoleon 's personal image of collectivism : an imperial militarism . |
| 22 | It used capacity charges to directly recoup costs of building plant , and then it sold electricity by the kilowatt hour . |
| 23 | And then it came turn and er was er speaking quite well when this girl behind us this wee well along side us was thumbs up on him all the time you know he was doing well and that . |
| 24 | Even then it took time for those in Washington who favoured direct American military involvement as opposed to military aid or some loose Atlantic security system , to gain the ascendancy . |
| 25 | Then it created fire and water ; and when it had brought them together , Ohrmazd came into existence , and simultaneously Time became Creator and Lord with regard to the creation it had brought forth . |
| 26 | Then it used fur to cover the skin . |
| 27 | At least it forced project officers to consider the role of women . |
| 28 | At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years |
| 29 | Being upset about Timothy Gedge had made her tired , but she was glad she 'd been upset , for at least it made sense , not like moping over a baby that could n't be born . |
| 30 | While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition . |