Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Giral government , consisting entirely as it did of bourgeois Republicans , was increasingly irrelevant to the new situation . |
| 2 | Weaker areas are exposed dramatically when the market turns down as it did during 1992 . |
| 3 | Innumerable times a whole Christian community has broken down because it had sprung from a wish dream . |
| 4 | In the stunned silence George Felse got up , without speaking , and crossed the room to where Gus 's jacket hung on the back of a chair , turned towards the replenished fire , and steamed gently as it dried . |
| 5 | In other words , if precedent was followed , the package of budget cuts would be attacked piecemeal when it disappeared into the congressional maze ; even though there might be general agreement on the need to cut the budget , vested interests operating through sympathetic members could , one by one , weaken or restore specific cuts . |
| 6 | In case of doubt the court has to guess what meaning Parliament would have picked on if it had thought of the point . |
| 7 | The back row simply carried on where it left off against the Welsh with the indestructible McBride , Robinson and O'Hara repeatedly first to the breakdown . |
| 8 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 9 | According to Judge Abraham Sofaer , Brunei was picked especially because it received no assistance already , and would seem to be returning no favours ; it was never intended to get anything beyond appreciation . |
| 10 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 11 | Like so many other worthwhile benefits , it seems destined to wither away year by year , even though the benefit that it replaced , the widow 's allowance , would have been uprated annually if it had continued . |
| 12 | The game from that period looks just as it did when the original agreement was concluded — because of the infinite horizon assumption every subgame is identical to the original game — and so if it was in the firms ' interests to negotiate that agreement initially it will be in their interests now to renegotiate that agreement . |
| 13 | Well I sent it to the B B C , I sent it to Duncan but I also sent it to the the Lady a shorter version to the Lady their competition and I said their competition was gon na be on the eighteenth in their issue they would give the names of the of the winners , but I had looked in the Lady yesterday in Smiths and there was none of nothing about it , but I do n't think I 've won anyway because it said you 'd be notified by post so . |
| 14 | Gazzer 's head was wrenched up until it crashed into the back of the seat . |
| 15 | As Adele had pointed out , even men of integrity could behave differently when it came to women . |
| 16 | Bookings of the ten-year package , fixed at 8.99 per cent for those borrowing up to 90 per cent , have been steady since its launch and have picked up since it featured in Money Mail recently . |
| 17 | The system was the last shadow of the original shield in space , pursued partly because it contained exciting high technology , partly because it might possibly offer some worthwhile advantages , and partly because it could be used to show that Mr Bush had not turned his back on Mr Reagan 's dream . |
| 18 | ‘ At one time you had to box straight until it ended . |
| 19 | The campaign petered out when it became obvious that the Government was not going to budge . |
| 20 | The track wound past one last stand of trees , then petered out as it reached a wide , open space at the top of the hill . |
| 21 | Our technique of solving the above equations has improved , and of course we are in a much better position now to evaluate the material constants , but fundamentally electromagnetic theory stands now as it stood a century ago . |
| 22 | The attempt to put a stop to the moving earth stands out because it proved so tragic an aberration — a personal tragedy for Galileo and , in the long run , a tragedy for the Church , which overreached itself in securing a territory that would prove impossible to hold . |
| 23 | And really it has to be said and has to be said historically that I mean the army in a way was left with a job which politicians should have sorted out before it got to that stage . |
| 24 | To monitor the course of the project , that is , to study the implementation of the action project design , to find out whether it operated in the way envisaged , using the means planned , and to examine any problems which arose and any unanticipated consequences . |
| 25 | ‘ We have to find out where it went . ’ |
| 26 | We certainly found out when it happened . |
| 27 | As I changed from listening to walking mode , I tried to work out whether it had feet or flippers or ran on rollers . |
| 28 | Again , this was not a PNP initiative but is reported here because it concerned parents , children and schools and gives an example of the practice from which the LEA 's unwritten policy on home-school links has to be inferred . |
| 29 | Ma is thin and she 's not all that strong , but she did have a go , persevering even after it mowed down most of her prize herb bed . |
| 30 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |