Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently it involved developing the muscles of the pelvic floor . |
| 2 | If the answer is still no , then you really need to think hard about how long it took to produce the material and whether that expenditure of time was justified . |
| 3 | It surprised me how long it took to make the change to HTV . |
| 4 | Ellwood wondered how the search for Tessa was going and how long it had taken the Department to close the story down . |
| 5 | Perhaps it had happened the way Donna said . |
| 6 | For it was she who told herself that nothing was to be gained at this moment by recrimination , that Sir George 's land and influence at Stockton were still big assets ( though nowhere near worth the price at which they had been bought ) , and that a moping Sir George — a sackcloth-ashes flagellant — could be all it needed to bring the whole structure of confidence tumbling down . |
| 7 | So it failed to turn the heating element off … and the oil was boiled up to 185 degrees centigrade … turning the liquid into explosive vapour . |
| 8 | The Pill seemed to symbolise the free woman — sexy and single , and so it seemed to prefigure the women 's liberation movement 's quest for pleasure and independence . |
| 9 | Nevertheless it had broken the thread by which the country had been tied to France and although it might be claimed that , as in Burma during the war or in Indonesia at the end of the war , it was a spurious independence and part of Japanese mischief making , nevertheless Vietnam was now in a formal sense independent if not exactly free . |
| 10 | Soon it began to create the steady whine that she had come to associate with this strange instrument . |
| 11 | Thus , recognition by Her Majesty 's Government was the decisive matter and the courts had no role save to inquire of the executive whether or not it had recognised the government in question . |
| 12 | Already it had cost the lives of seventeen men from the Hispaniola . |
| 13 | Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City . |
| 14 | Thirdly it seemed to represent the beginnings of the healing of the relationship between God and humanity . |
| 15 | To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace . |
| 16 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 17 | The repeated passage of a presolar cloud of material through the spiral arms caused it to be compressed until eventually it collapsed to form the Solar System . |
| 18 | Rather it attempted to lay the movement to rest . |
| 19 | Did n't they all know about the terrible appearance of the Conablaiche last time , and how it had prowled the country , snatching sleeping children from their beds and tearing out their hearts for its Dark Master . |
| 20 | how it attempted to translate the 1944 White Paper on Employment Policy , which committed it to pursue ‘ a high and stable level of employment ’ , into action ; |
| 21 | The government originally promised to publish a consultation document on how it proposed to implement the directive by autumn 1992 . |
| 22 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 23 | Yet by then it had gained the distinction — shared only with Guynemer 's squadron of the Cigognes — of being entitled to wear the shoulder lanyard of a twice cited unit . |
| 24 | Then it began to understand the horror of its own predicament . |
| 25 | I mean you I do n't know if they 're dead or alive or and then it said see the next one , next week . |
| 26 | By 1810 the legal government of independent Spain ( which had transformed itself from a Central Junta , composed of delegates from the Provincial Juntas , into a Regency ) was cooped up in Cadiz surrounded by a French army ; there it sought to find the sinews of war and to regularize the constitutional position by summoning a Cortes which met on 24 September 1810 . |
| 27 | For the press , the loosening of the relationship with politicians produced a dilemma : it aspired to greatness as the fourth estate and as an institution for political enlightenment yet it had to pursue the mass audience in order to survive commercially . |
| 28 | The National Assistance Act seemed to turn its back on this doctrines yet it failed to jettison the view entirely and it failed to provide financial resources sufficient to enable the Board to avoid having to distinguish between the claims made by applicants , particularly as regards their more unusual needs . |
| 29 | However it had had the effect of making her very careful , after her own children were born , about the way she spoke to them . |
| 30 | Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect . |