Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
| 2 | Before phylloxera , it had not been necessary to prune and train , although vine training systems were widely practised — after phylloxera it became essential . |
| 3 | There was one girl she 'd erm she 'd burnt her leg right down the front of her leg er on the bone in the front of her leg and er her mother just wrapped up something an old stocking I think she put in it , and of course it went bad did n't it . |
| 4 | Of course it felt nice , what did you expect ? |
| 5 | Yes yes yes when when when I grew older , of course it took all the men When er you know one would b the the whole lot would be going together you know . |
| 6 | By assuming the political economic circumstances of this displacement as given , of course it seemed natural to the colonial administration that the condition of environmental deterioration was the fault of the cultivators themselves . |
| 7 | It had never been done before , but I had this premonition , and of course it proved true . ’ |
| 8 | In a number of cases it ousted earlier conventions , such as the indiction or year of grace ( see later ) . |
| 9 | Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease . |
| 10 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 11 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 12 | The hull was unrecognisable as such ; half out of water it became unidentifiable debris . |
| 13 | Rosyth 's managing director , Allan Smith , said the job cuts were needed because the Ministry of Defence had reduced its workload and London Underground had cut the number of trains it wanted refurbished . |
| 14 | Out of control it caused dreadful havoc , but when it ran smoothly and sweetly it not only modified life 's aridity but added a pleasing dimension to the view , while Lydia , at present , was using it only to make mud pies . |
| 15 | The group doubled the number of passengers it carried last year to 1.65m and should perform even better this year following the purchase in September of Pickfords Travel from NFC for more than £16m . |
| 16 | In the course of argument it became apparent that there was a potential issue as to the precise causal nexus between the acts and omissions alleged in the statement of claim and the physical consequences of those acts and omissions . |
| 17 | From these sorts of consideration it became clear that light is made up of lots of particles . |
| 18 | At its worst it may have been a parasitic racket representing only itself to the detriment of all , but on the larger canvas of society it gave political power to a narrow group of substantial landowners in loose alliance with merchant princes and the small towns which returned members to Parliament . |
| 19 | In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks . |
| 20 | After a lot of effort it wriggled most of one arm free . |
| 21 | Since the DFR was not a document of title , but merely a receipt and notice of shipment it did little to assure the consignee or bona fide purchaser of the goods that the shipper would not resell or reroute the goods in transit . |
| 22 | As Selwyn had been founded to commemorate the great Bishop of Melanesia it seemed appropriate that the college should make Melanesia its special interest and perhaps in time raise enough money to pay one of its own men to go out and serve as priest and educationist in that diocese of so many islands . |
| 23 | But in the conversational recordings , the speed at times was often averaging 400 , and for fragments of utterance it approached 500 . |
| 24 | On the seventh of June it took this long to get to . |
| 25 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 26 | Whereas for John the Kingdom came as a threat to a people who were unprepared , for Jesus it represented good news to those who felt unworthy or excluded . |
| 27 | But in meeting with Kosygin it became clear to Razak that the Soviet Union would prefer its own larger collective security agreement , which would embrace Japan , Pakistan and India as well as the smaller states . |
| 28 | With time it became clear that the new region was too distant from Tornsk to be controlled with ease . |
| 29 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 30 | I stand up and brush my coat down just in case it got dirty with me sitting on the ground . |