Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the majority in favour of merit , SCOTVEC 's implementation of it attracted critical comment . |
| 2 | None of it brought any response from him . |
| 3 | Povey and Sir W. Batten and I by water to Woolwich ; and there saw an experiment made of Sir R. Ford 's Holland 's yarn ( about which we have lately made so much stir ; and I have much concerned myself of our rope-maker , Mr Hughes who represented it so bad ) and we found it to be very bad , and broke sooner than , upon a fair triall , five threads of that against four of Riga yarne ; also that some of it had old stuffe that had been tarred , covered over with new hempe , which is such a cheat as has not been heard of . |
| 4 | And she thought , as she stood there with Rosie , Susie , Katie , Isabel , Janice and Heather , that none of it mattered , none of it had any importance , in view of the fact that she was going . |
| 5 | The force of it lifted Golden Girl 's stern and for a moment Trent feared that she would bury her bows in the sea and pitch-pole . |
| 6 | Moddy Dhu was the PHANTOM dog of the Isle of Man , and the sight of it caused immediate death . |
| 7 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 8 | The Act defined the area for which bye-laws could be made , that is , all of the Moray Firth , although much of it comprised international waters . |
| 9 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 10 | None of it made any sense . |
| 11 | None of it made any sense ! |
| 12 | But none of it made any difference . |
| 13 | In Easton , the dislike of it made some policemen reluctant to attend certain sorts of incident where a great deal of paperwork could be expected ( such as road traffic accidents ) , although means of formal control usually ensured they responded in the end . |
| 14 | Although there was a flurry of Jacobite plotting and conspiracy in the period 1689 – 97 , none of it stood much chance of success . |
| 15 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 16 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 17 | Next Computer Inc is going try to stage a NeXTWorld Expo without leaning on Uniforum by holding it at the same time like it did last year . |
| 18 | Beyond the inn a church tower perched in the tree-tops and behind it crowded high green sheltering hills . |
| 19 | In Ghana 46% of the population are under sixteen years of age which brings with it associated social problems . |
| 20 | Poor Mervyn , she knew that she ought to feel sorry for him , living with his disagreeable old mother — at least , this was how she appeared in Ianthe 's imagination — disappointed at not having got a job in one of the University libraries , unable to find staff accurate enough to appreciate the niceties of setting out a bibliographical entry correctly , with it seemed few friends of either sex , unable to eat restaurant food — really , the list seemed endless when one thought about it . |
| 21 | At a national level the Triple Alliance collapsed in April ; with it went socialist hope that a united union movement could challenge the government . |
| 22 | But for the small time it took to put this inner up it made little difference . |
| 23 | He ran a shrewd brown eye over the formidable ramifications of Isambard 's favourite castle , and speculated on which of the stony holes under it held young Harry . |
| 24 | The tap could be regulated so that the water flowing from it filled another tank in exactly twenty-four hours , while raising a float inside the tank a fixed distance . |
| 25 | From it fell refracted light , on balding heads and shaven heads , on Mohican plumes and gelled spikes , on neatly barbered and dressed locks , on neglected middle-aged wispy bobs , on plaits and loops and layered body waves . |
| 26 | In a two-year period of review from late 1981 the Course as a whole and all fields within it reviewed overall principles , the design of the Course and the specific contributions of subject areas . |
| 27 | In the churches , traditional orthodoxy of a more or less pre-Enlightenment character fought to retain its footing , but alongside it grew other movements ranging from what today would be called Conservative Evangelicalism to those which were consciously progressive , liberal and modern . |
| 28 | Beyond it stood four guards , their knives drawn . |
| 29 | Necessary as legislation was in terms of public safety , for years it was unattractive to Ministers since it required considerable expenditure whilst at the same time being unlikely to attract any votes . |
| 30 | The dialogue which ran up to it showed good pace , and the strength of the star 's performance , absent in recent days , began again to show through . |