Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 2 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 3 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 4 | And if this chap said , the one that took it that night , he said there is no point in him doing it because he did n't have the coaches insured for enough . |
| 5 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |
| 6 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 7 | Nonetheless , it was British fears that began the process of creating a political group ( rather than a religious one ) , and British political tactics to safeguard their continued power that gave it national significance . |
| 8 | The school that won it last year bought a skeleton . |
| 9 | Answer guide : The point here is that at the date of the balance sheet the business did not own the asset nor had it any right to its use as all that had happened at that date was an order had been placed which could easily be cancelled . |
| 10 | They later formed Theme Holdings with Peter Langan , opened three restaurants , floated the company on the stock market in 1987 ( value £6m ) and sold it two years later for £18m . |
| 11 | ‘ But they bought it for £46 million and sold it six months later for £92 million , and there was nothing we could do about it . ’ |
| 12 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 13 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 14 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 15 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 16 | I cleared it out and relaid it this morning , fortunately . |
| 17 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 18 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |
| 19 | It appeared in WW for July 28 and August 4 , 1926 and owed it considerable success and subsequent fame to the new technique of neutralising the RF stage triode and to the use of an RF coil design by Cocking . |
| 20 | Happily , after this the judge went on to say that nevertheless it was ‘ a beautiful thing ’ and awarded it first prize . |
| 21 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 22 | And his two escorts had shrugged and sympathised , and called it bad luck . |
| 23 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 24 | we sat and watched it last night . |
| 25 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw it before , and felt it last night when I kissed you . |
| 27 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 28 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 29 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 30 | Woolley swung into a second chorus , and gave it greater volume . |