Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] to [noun sg] " 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 drizzle was so fine that it amounted to fog and he had to drive slowly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is true that liberalism could not back a jacquerie and that it preferred to paternalism the teaching of political economy in schools . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It went and it sent to sooth |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Fael-Inis , and it seemed to Taliesin that he watched Fergus very intently now . |
| 13 | Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale . |
| 14 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 15 | The Ferret was never happy when anyone other than himself was examining a scene of crime and it seemed to Dalgliesh that his impatience to get on with the job came through the wall as a palpable force . |
| 16 | Needless to say , an appeal took place in the summer of 1991 and it came to light that although the Sharmas had been entitled to take Sophie and Robbie , they had never done so . |
| 17 | We had it scanned and it came to light the morning after the race . |
| 18 | Mother watched in horror as the fly fell from its mouth and it swam to freedom . |
| 19 | The various elements combined until it seemed to Ace that a choir was whispering to her . |
| 20 | The programme took its usual course , until it came to news time . |
| 21 | And if it came to court she would make a plea that he be given the care of his daughter until she became of age . |
| 22 | If it came to court today Armstrong would not be convicted . |
| 23 | I note that the first thing that the Labour party would do in my Department , if it came to power , would be to change the name of MAFF to FAFF . |
| 24 | If it came to violence , he was n't going to do too well . |
| 25 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 26 | Pearce look for Phillips on the right Lewis got there first but it dropped to Stone . |
| 27 | But it brought to mind Mrs Thatcher 's description of ex-Chancellor Nigel Lawson as ‘ unassailable ’ — shortly before he quit in protest at her opposition to Europe 's Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 28 | The shaft was probably renewed in the 17th century and was surmounted by an oval ball till it succumbed to schoolboy vandalism some 40 years ago . |
| 29 | Public prosecutor Andrei Makarov declared afterwards that it had been significant " not so much because it punished Ostashvili , but because it brought to light the forces standing behind this small figure and exposed the fascism which is growing in society " . |
| 30 | TI blames itself for telling the newsletter that that would be the ‘ average price for 1993 ’ because it forgot to factor in the industry practice of constantly repricing in the face of better yields . |