Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From its beginnings here , silk weaving spread to the Midlands and the north where it graduated to factory industry status . |
| 2 | The marriage of John Donaldson and Frances Thornycroft resulted in the birth of a son , who was named Thornycroft Donaldson , who — together with John Isaac Thornycroft 's eldest son , John Edward , continued the business into the twentieth century , although it removed to Southampton in 1900 . |
| 3 | The drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 4 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |
| 5 | He was almost certain that it belonged to Maidstone but he would newer leave half a glass of wine behind , surely . |
| 6 | The poster at the end of the tunnel was so large and so perfectly lit that it seemed to O , looking up at it suddenly , that the tunnel did not end in a wall , in fact did not end at all , but led to the green fields of France . |
| 7 | Well , in the in the question of I M R O as far as it 's erm occupational pension scheme members are concerned , er there 's no there 's no compensation responsibility and I think that that means that you get no , no whistle blowing and in I mean there 's , we 've got , I mean one of the points that we , we heard of just last evening was that one of the of the banks involved ended up er in its arrangements with Maxwell of asking for a hundred and sixty per cent of shares for every hundred per cent of loans that it made to Maxwell . |
| 8 | To uncouple , the tug drew away and the leg was so balanced that it dropped to earth by gravity : if this leg was , through any reason tight , and it failed to function , the trailer fell to the ground , and so cast its load . |
| 9 | Later , in exile , she defended the festival saying that it brought to Iran purist , traditional art form all over the world . |
| 10 | One limitation of the book is that it related to UK names only . |
| 11 | Having outlined the snowballing process itself , the following sections will present the findings concerning the two principal tasks that it sought to accomplish-measuring the size of the hidden heroin sector and identifying variations between the profiles of known and unknown users . |
| 12 | But both Woodruffe and Hodson denied strongly that the Association was in any sense a secret society , that it sought to discipline members in breach of rules , to dictate terms to shipowners or to enforce a closed shop . |
| 13 | It was n't until Thursday that it occurred to Loretta that if she was going near Oxford , she might as well call in on Bridget . |
| 14 | It was long after she had gone to sleep and he had prodded her in the ribs to stop her snoring and was , himself , lying awake , staring into the darkness , thinking about Donald that it occurred to Henry that this was the longest conversation he had had with Elinor for about a year and that , after a bad start , she had , once or twice , come dangerously near to amiability . |
| 15 | It is true that liberalism could not back a jacquerie and that it preferred to paternalism the teaching of political economy in schools . |
| 16 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 17 | When the name was officially changed the term ‘ non-objective ’ fell into general disfavour , possibly because of a public mis-perception that it referred to art without a purpose . |
| 18 | Until very late in the day , the possibility of their downfall does not seem to have occurred to Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu , any more than it had to Zhivkov or Honecker . |
| 19 | The Buddhist press paid more attention to gambling and drunkenness than it did to cattle stealing , presumably because most newspaper correspondents lived in towns , where cattle stealing was a relatively infrequent occurrence . |
| 20 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 21 | The third requirement grew out of this — namely , as America became more involved in this conflict , so it looked to Britain to send at least a token force to assist in the war in Vietnam , or failing that to give strong diplomatic backing to the United States . |
| 22 | One might claim Simon 's heart was in the right place , but his head — so it appeared to Markby — was all over the place . |
| 23 | And it fell to bits . |
| 24 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 25 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 26 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 27 | Customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance as the consignment arrived and it continued to Scott 's house where he was arrested . |
| 28 | It went and it sent to sooth |
| 29 | The jet was sleek , even more luxurious than the limousine — and it belonged to Nicolo . |
| 30 | And here 's the record A Hundred Children do n't forget the er the C D By Request it 's it 's just out and it got to number one this morning in the video charts . |