Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was released in space on Oct. 19 to begin a six-year 2,500-million-mile voyage to study the planet Jupiter , on a gravitationally assisted trajectory planned to swing it once past the planet Venus and twice around the Earth . |
| 2 | He said that if either the Conservatives or Labour sought to go it alone as a minority Government they risked an economic crisis and rising interest rates . |
| 3 | There are several ways of pressing plant material and , generally speaking , the lighter the material involved , the lighter the weight needed to press it successfully . |
| 4 | But by that very defence they have restored free speech to areas in this country where organised Socialist and Communist opposition had prevented it before in open public meeting . ’ |
| 5 | On the Liberal side , anger at the illegal campaign against Home Rule had made it equally difficult for Asquith to compromise , and he too could see no other way forward . |
| 6 | We were looking forward to gorging ourselves , but the buyer was a restaurateur and his chef had skinned it so cleanly that there was n't enough flesh for a sandwich ) . |
| 7 | A delighted fan had taken it home |
| 8 | I wondered if Sorrel had missed it yet . |
| 9 | Channell told him that supporters who gave $300,000 or more could meet Reagan for 15 minutes , and that their visits were not logged on : ‘ the implication being that this was so secret that the President wanted to keep it so not everybody at the White House knew what was going on . ’ |
| 10 | One by-product of photolysis ( photolysis is the dissociation of water vapour through ultraviolet radiation ) was that once oxygen began to appear it soon combined with whatever ammonia or methane was then present , and built itself into rock structures . |
| 11 | And no matter how the experts argued about the legitimacy of descent through the female line , nevertheless the people recognised no bar , and the council had accepted it as just and right when Richard , in view of his childlessness , had been urged to name his heir presumptive , and had named Philippa 's elder son , Roger , earl of March . |
| 12 | Before the printing of outer G could resume , a compositor had to reset it completely . |
| 13 | No decisions have yet been made as to pricing , but O'Connell says ACT intended to make it as easy for existing customers as possible . |
| 14 | But it seems likely that the importance of the plan in creating a ‘ growth climate ’ diminished as the experience of rapid growth meant that business came to expect it anyway . |
| 15 | We found the machine was fairly comfortable to use for long periods , but the high body did make it slightly awkward to control in tight corners . |
| 16 | Yet her body had rejected it so soon , with a firmness which had seemed quite final . |
| 17 | The force of the tide threatened to snatch it away from him . |
| 18 | The crew tried to drive it away , and one man fired a rifle at it . |
| 19 | Although society as a whole was very far from accepting the extremes of revolutionary order and , of course , most of Europe , Britain above all , had fought for years to suppress it , the painfulness of the Church 's early experience of the Revolution helped to keep it profoundly opposed even to the Revolution 's more moderate implications , ones increasingly accepted by European society as a whole . |
| 20 | At first , Henry had not been able to believe that her therapist had got it so right . |
| 21 | One essential was that the head had to make it clear to his colleagues that he trusted them . |
| 22 | His carving knife was only about half an inch wide at the centre where constant sharpening had worn it away . |
| 23 | Seeing the ‘ For Sale ’ sign had put it right out of his head . |
| 24 | Now his kiss threatened to start it all over again . |
| 25 | Thomas and Lansbury , however , lacked both imagination and thrust ; and Mosley , who did produce a Keynesian scheme of public works , resigned after the Cabinet had rejected it as impracticable . |
| 26 | It was as filled with rare and handsome things as any other in the palazzo , yet it had a different feel to it , as if its owner had furnished it more with an eye to what pleased him than to effect . |
| 27 | In 1898 the Corporation was debating whether or not to close the Tubwell Row pump even though an analyst had condemned it as ‘ absolutely unfit for drinking purposes ’ . |
| 28 | Nobody took this fable seriously until in 1961 a Russian film-maker managed to record it actually happening . |
| 29 | The music had sounded exactly like all other music he had ever heard , and the intervals between Louise Müller 's appearances had been rather tedious , but the display of her charms had provided more than adequate compensation for the occasional ennui Lefevre had enjoyed it even more , expressing his enthusiasm at the end by shouting , ‘ Bravo ! ’ standing , and clapping his hands above his head . |
| 30 | The old farmer 's daughter had donated it together with the notebook the farmer ( and his father before him ) had kept of his sales and receipts . |