Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects . |
| 32 | He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does . |
| 33 | living on her own , so he assumed it take three and a half hours did the boss . |
| 34 | " You mean — is it Dom João ? " she asked , and when he confirmed it added half to herself , " So he is — quite important . " |
| 35 | Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face . |
| 36 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 37 | This showed it to have formal negotiating agreements at ten of the principal ports of England , Scotland and Wales and at three in Ireland , and to have ad hoc local wage agreements at substantially all the rest . |
| 38 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 39 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 40 | When we arrived it seemed such a friendly place , there would be 2 or 3 people to meet you at the gates and welcome you in . |
| 41 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 42 | With nothing else to read , it seemed to have the edge on the income tax manuals ( though non-believers would say only just ) , so you can imagine how bad I felt when I opened it to find most of the pages had been razored to provide a nest for a small brown envelope . |
| 43 | She knocked on a second door and opened it to reveal twenty children of about Flora 's age at old-fashioned desks with inkwells sunk into the top right-hand corners of the lids . |
| 44 | They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources . |
| 45 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 46 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 47 | Erm it touched it touched twenty grand last year . |
| 48 | In the discussion that followed it became clear that graduated PAF would not be popular . |
| 49 | The concert and the reception which followed it generated considerable interest in , as well as funds for , the Alumni Foundation . |
| 50 | The December 1989 coup attempt and the abortive revolts which followed it damaged international investor confidence in the Philippines . |
| 51 | The Adventist Development and Relief Agency ( ADRA ) in conjunction with Si Sa Ket Hospital , have taken a popular local medium — a combination of dance , drama and song called ‘ moh lam ’ — and adapted it to convey educational messages . |
| 52 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 53 | In 1982 West Germany discovered it had serious problems with its forests — results of research indicated that half showed signs of ill health . |
| 54 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |
| 55 | The wind was in the right direction , and she heard it strike ten — and then eleven . |
| 56 | He had the expatriate knack of being lent things and getting himself looked after on his return to the native land , and as they talked it became apparent that we were to be entertained to lunch by the gallery owner . |
| 57 | DeFries gave everyone money to get winter coats when he decided it gets cold in the United States . |
| 58 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 59 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 60 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |