Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the credit side it did allow the rear axle of the tug to be the full width of the vehicle , giving more stability , as did the final ‘ Wolverton ’ design . |
| 2 | The husband not only forked food into his mouth with an almost non-stop movement of his right hand , but he also held a corn bun in his left hand so that food could be put into his mouth to fill the split second it took to reload the fork . |
| 3 | Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year . |
| 4 | The work had been incredibly boring ; even with her husband 's help it had taken an age to find out the Russian terms for the jargon of mountaineering , and the subject simply left her cold . |
| 5 | In one sense the Child Poverty Action Group ( CPAG ) was also a surprising ally : since its inception it had cap-tured the idea that family allowances were a bulwark , not so much against women 's economic dependence on men , but rather against the exigencies of low pay . |
| 6 | how to be ta er the wheels on that fire engine it had got the registration , had you noticed ? |
| 7 | And when the poison was put under the microscope it seemed to contain the most beautiful colours of the rainbow . |
| 8 | There was a frequently reiterated belief that for Tanganyika to be understood properly in the international community it needed to have a strong English language press in which TANU policies would be stated clearly . |
| 9 | For Horace it might have been a short madness ; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore . |
| 10 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of Michael Dickinson , the now US-based trainer who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again who hit form on the day it mattered to scoop the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 11 | Martin Pipe enlisted the help of fellow trainer Michael Dickinson , now based in the US but who saddled the first five home in the 1983 Cheltenham Gold Cup , in the preparation of Granville Again , who hit form on the day it mattered to win the £140,000 Smurfit Champion Hurdle . |
| 12 | A psychiatrist who specialises in executive stress thought the fencing indicated that the person it protected felt an enormous sense of isolation and betrayal at the hands of people who had failed to be grateful for years of selfless public service . |
| 13 | Last week it volunteered to create a common applications programming interface ( API ) based on its object-oriented framework and submit it gratis to X/Open Co Ltd as part of the COSE standard . |
| 14 | From the roof of the banqueting hall he could see that the river , which had been almost dry until now , had swollen greatly , it continued to rise during the night until by the following morning it had submerged the melon beds . |
| 15 | At the start it seemed to improve the matches but it , they 've just become too hectic now I think . |
| 16 | In the twilight it seemed to shine a pale , opalescent blue , nearly white . |
| 17 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 18 | While the ducal lament graphically highlighted some of the problems of the past it failed to chart a new way ahead for the industry . |
| 19 | The store cleverly used some space it saved to install a display of blue jeans , highlighting the high cost of the store 's wool trousers . |
| 20 | British public opinion welcomed the Charter but for the government it involved repudiating the policies of protection and imperial preference , adopted in the depths of the world depression . |
| 21 | It was a knife 's edge of a mood , and by the merest fraction it had tipped the wrong way . |
| 22 | Beyond the cottage it widened to provide a rough , gravelled turning , backed by a forty-foot bank of shingle behind which Dalgliesh could hear the crash and suck of the tide . |
| 23 | For instance it agreed to abolish the slave trade . |
| 24 | At another level it appeared to vindicate the BUF 's tactics of street campaigning , in which Joyce had always believed and to which Mosley had been drawn . |
| 25 | The Socialist leader took charge of the mandate after the conservative New Democracy Party , which fell three seats short of an overall majority in the general elections last weekend , failed to drum up the extra support it needed to create a minority administration . |
| 26 | Of course it did herald a new era … in the second division . |
| 27 | Eliot said Ayling believed the sale of the lease would have brought the paper the huge sum of money it needed to refurbish the part of the building it was to retain and to update its rather old-fashioned equipment . |
| 28 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 29 | Fran smiled , her face aching from the effort it cost to make the lie seem like the truth . |
| 30 | But with the decline of France , Italy and Germany from great power status it had become a power vacuum . |