Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During November it ordered ground forces over the " security zone " border on three occasions and in a clash on Nov. 27 on the edge of the zone five Israeli soldiers were killed by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) guerrillas . |
| 2 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 3 | In Britain it spawned works as varied as Peter Maxwell Davies ' Eight Songs For A Mad King ( 1968 ) and Harrison Birtwhistle 's Punch And Judy ( 1967 ) , even Britten-s church parables . |
| 4 | Such agreements on extraterritoriality are common where American forces or advisers are stationed abroad , but in Iran it aroused memories of the humiliating capitulations demanded by the British and the Russians in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 5 | When we arrived in Lima it took time to go through the formalities . |
| 6 | But in London it brought belly laughs with a bawdy display of music hall humour and saucy songs . |