Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 2 | Well my Lord , all we know is that erm when the report was served on the defendant it then came through court they were going to have to call Mr and then last week it was suggested er that er not only did they not agree but that they were going to try to prevent it being admitted in evidence . |
| 3 | For all the good it ever did for your sons . |
| 4 | With Amdahl Corp faced with an uphill struggle to adjust its business so that it can thrive in a post-mainframe world , and all its other major investments — things like the former Poqet Computer Corp and HAL Computers Inc still in the development stage and demanding more capital , while its own core business is a victim of the mainframe malaise , Fujitsu Ltd 's 80% of ICL Plc begins to look the company 's most valuable asset , making it increasingly likely that the company will in due course want to float a lot more than the 25% it originally suggested on the London International Stock Exchange : Fujitsu 's biggest problem is the one now facing all big Japanese companies — that the days of cheap capital at home are gone with the bubble economy , probably forever , and many Japanese companies issued convertibles in the 1980s that are coming up to maturity ; with prices on the Tokyo exchange still bombed out , few holders are going to want to convert into shares , which means that issuers will have to raise expensive new capital on the international markets to redeem them . |
| 5 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 6 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 7 | I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job . |
| 8 | As the cabin cruiser The Aznewts approached the bank of the River Severn at Holt Fleet in Worcester it suddenly rolled over throwing three of the crew overboard . |
| 9 | The rural idyll remains strongly evocative in most industrialized societies , but the emotional hold it formerly possessed over the minds of most Japanese has been substantially weakened . |
| 10 | And having asked the question it now occurred to him that with this woman 's shrewd , sharp eyes upon him , he may be unable to bear the answer . |
| 11 | As the toga increased in social importance it also gained in size , though it clearly remained a difficult garment to wear . |
| 12 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 13 | Thus Spencer Stuart has not been unduly dependent on the multinational business it originally brought with it , and has many loyal British corporate clients on its books . |
| 14 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
| 15 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 16 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 17 | And Robert , who was by now learning the basic rule that if anybody said anything interesting it was probably Muhammad , would ask if by any chance it just happened to be a saying of the Prophet , to which the headmaster would reply , his eyes shining , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 18 | ‘ In uncertain conditions it sometimes resulted in roads being gritted unnecessarily , and turning out the gritting teams costs £3,000 a time . |
| 19 | It was borne upon us pretty quickly that the interested watchers were wearing air force blue , and that from the distance it probably looked to them as if we were all stark naked . |
| 20 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 21 | More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ . |
| 22 | Hoare said last night it now expected to be trimming its full year forecast back from the £30m pencilled in so far . |
| 23 | That first night it suddenly dawned on me that they were there for me . |
| 24 | By stimulating demand in the world economy it both added to inflation and , on the positive side , helped European industrial output to continue growing even after post-war reconstruction was achieved . |
| 25 | This , and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body , lent it much mystique for a time , ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone . |
| 26 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 27 | Beside the stone shell of the Flemyngs ' new mill , at the back of a piece of ground it now shared with a new carpet factory , long-haired cattle were browsing desultorily among mudded grass and stacks of timber . |
| 28 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co is determined to be recognised as a genuine contender in the mass market , and to demonstrate its commitment it immediately responded to the Compaq Computer Corp price cuts with cuts of its own in the US . |
| 29 | Neuron Data 's UK operation replaces the distributorship arrangement it previously had with Data Sciences Ltd . |
| 30 | Last time , Congress got just six seats out of 42 in a state it once claimed as its almost exclusive territory . |