Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The school that won it last year bought a skeleton . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They barricaded the building and ocupied it all night . |
| 8 | I cleared it out and relaid it this morning , fortunately . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Happily , after this the judge went on to say that nevertheless it was ‘ a beautiful thing ’ and awarded it first prize . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And his two escorts had shrugged and sympathised , and called it bad luck . |
| 13 | we sat and watched it last night . |
| 14 | ‘ I saw it before , and felt it last night when I kissed you . |
| 15 | The press picked up the story the following day and gave it wide coverage . |
| 16 | He conceived the idea of artificial daylight and gave it practical reality by filtering the light of an Argand oil lamp through blue glass . |
| 17 | Woolley swung into a second chorus , and gave it greater volume . |
| 18 | Also on 13 March Fawcett received the ‘ preliminary note ’ at his editor 's office and gave it top priority . |
| 19 | The Authority rightly identified teachers ' classroom practice as a critical factor in children 's learning and gave it considerable prominence in documents , courses and the day-to-day work of its advisory staff in schools . |
| 20 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 21 | she spoke to and said we 've discussed it cos I asked whether she 'd done that , she said she 'd spoken to and said we 've discussed that we should share the work more equally and said no I 'm happy with the way things were and left it that way |
| 22 | I joined the Associate Membership scheme in the beginning and left it last year because of what I felt was gross overcharging for a pathetic members ' service . |
| 23 | At 2 p.m. , rather than face more questions from the femme ménage , she ladled the food that had been left for her to eat into one bowl and carried it some way down the hill to a place where she knew it would be picked up by stray dogs and cats . |
| 24 | If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way . |
| 25 | This is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete local network-based application development environment for client-server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year . |
| 26 | ADP is IBM 's troubled attempt to develop a complete LAN-based application development environment for client/server systems — IBM failed outright with AD/Cycle for MVS , and abandoned it last year ( UX No 353 ) . |
| 27 | In 1991 , for example , Fareed Armaly and Christian Philipp Muller cloned the banal façade of the building and relocated it full scale at the edge of a forest : ‘ Fassade Galerie Nagel 1:1 ’ showed the same , faceless , empty apartment building but joined to a work belonging to Munich art dealer , Hanns Daxer and his wife ( to which ‘ Fassade ’ now also belongs ) . |