Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When her voice came to his ears it denied the ordinariness of her clothes and the simplicity suggested by her powderless face and loose lying hair , for her tone was crisp , each word clear . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries it became the custom to bind a number of small books and , especially , pamphlets up together in calf or morocco , often suitably labelled on the spine . |
| 3 | The popular courts survived far longer , and the royal court remained stronger than elsewhere in northern Europe ; and in the twelfth century the royal court began to grow in importance , until in later centuries it swallowed the jurisdiction of most other courts . |
| 4 | Its history is a long one in Scotland and in 1786 it was already a polled breed ( though some were scurred ) but in other respects it resembled the Highland , especially in shape and colour . |
| 5 | In those early days it seemed the sky was the limit ! |
| 6 | In the old days it needed a team of 20 women to do the equivalent job — and even then they did it less than half as fast . |
| 7 | When I caught all the balls it made the game a lot more fun for both of us . |
| 8 | La Plata , the administrative centre of Buenos Aires province , had undergone economic vicissitudes at the end of the century , but with the upturn in its fortunes in the next few years it acquired a station of striking originality , an overall shed flanked by a staggeringly ornate pentagonal building covered in statuary and surmounted by a dome . |
| 9 | The shop 's three glass doors and old-fashioned set of windows were all adorned with window boxes and hanging baskets and for several years it won a Bath Festival award for the best floral shop facade in the City . |
| 10 | Over the next ten years it opened the doors to the development of relations between Wilson 's union and the shipowners so cordial and mutually supportive that his enemies in the labour movement could express ironic astonishment that he had ever had " any special connection with the Seamen at all " . |
| 11 | In essentials it embodied the proposals put forward by the Peoples Front Propaganda Committee and by G.D.H. Cole in previous years . |
| 12 | To cope with short-term problems it proposed an emergency programme covering aid , energy , food and international relations over five years . |
| 13 | Along with other actions it became the springboard towards legislative change in Ireland . |
| 14 | In some ways it resembled a flying fox , common throughout Malaysia ; in some ways it resembled a rat , but its easy flight and way of walking proclaimed it a bird . |
| 15 | But for the sisters it meant a chance to get to see more of each other . |
| 16 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |
| 17 | In mundane economic terms it meant the coexistence of public and private sectors . |
| 18 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 19 | But in class terms it marked a split within the ruling bloc , not the totalizing rupture from without that repealers claimed . |
| 20 | To help maintain private financial flows to LDCs it favoured the establishment of a multilateral investment insurance scheme . |
| 21 | With its powerful arms it threw the android over its shoulder . |
| 22 | These people , due to my being a prostitute , wanted me to distribute these disgusting videos and by finding this booklet which gave details and prices it pinpointed the fact that I was telling the truth . |
| 23 | By breaking the sequence of victories it damaged the aura of invincibility acquired by Clinton since Super Tuesday . |
| 24 | Between the wars it provided a market for the growing volume of Treasury bills issued by the government to meet its short-term financing needs . |
| 25 | Yeah , one of the reasons it bucked the trend was because we 've erm , ground one of our competitors into the dust and he 's had to combine with another newspaper there and that too is struggling . |
| 26 | But when it was rammed down their throats it became a battle , and the manager lost . |
| 27 | He said in many cases it reduced the need for conventional surgery , and it produced less scarring . |
| 28 | In the other cases it played a facilitating rather than a decisive role . |
| 29 | Er the first of erm er three three million square feet , second of four and a half , and erm the er in both cases it triggered the call-in procedure under the departure and in both cases er a public inquiry had to be held er or the Secretary of State chose to call a public inquiry . |
| 30 | Within a matter of hours it seemed the weather had changed . |