Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore it became against regulations to " unramm " a charge of powder which had mis-fired . |
| 2 | Suddenly it came to Hazel that if Bigwig was dead — and what else could hold him silent in the mud ? — then he himself must get the others away before the dreadful loss could drain their courage and break their spirit — as it would if they stayed by the body . |
| 3 | Suddenly it burst into flame . |
| 4 | Suddenly it dawned on Ramsay that this flag was considerably larger than that flown by the Regent . |
| 5 | Suddenly it seemed to Honor that a bond was being forged between them . |
| 6 | Suddenly it occurred to Alexei that in the event that he failed to return from the embassy the question of solemnising the marriage would not arise , and he wondered again how far he could trust Burun . |
| 7 | Suddenly it occurred to Willie that the church would soon be filled with people . |
| 8 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 9 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 10 | Perhaps it looked like mummy . |
| 11 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 12 | Right so it went from Cheltenham to London , a hundred and twenty miles , in two hours , what was its average speed ? |
| 13 | It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie . |
| 14 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 15 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 16 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 17 | Or so it seemed to Scott . |
| 18 | So it seemed to Fleury in his excitement , anyway . |
| 19 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 20 | And so it proved for Paula , whose father died when she was 29 ‘ leaving me with no senior protector and no-one to love me unconditionally . |
| 21 | A close contest between two evenly matched crews had been predicted and so it proved in conditions that were considerably better than had been anticipated . |
| 22 | He pulled on a charming smile , inspired once again — or so it appeared to Dexter — by another private joke which only he could understand . |
| 23 | So it arrived on time … |
| 24 | Moreover it printed in London as well as Manchester for most of the post-war years until its closure in 1960 . |
| 25 | Gradually it dawned on Peter that Molland wanted more than confirmation of his decisions and to demonstrate his own honesty : he honestly believed that this numbingly tedious attention to detail was doing Peter a favour by distracting him from his grief . |
| 26 | UI admits its lost the industry initiative it once appeared to have once it went beyond Unix kernel issues . |
| 27 | Yesterday it fell to John Major to announce that the Prince and Princess of Wales are to separate . |
| 28 | But the more the revival got under way , the more it responded to Rome 's own ethos , the less accommodating it was in regard to the values of either Protestantism or modern secular , liberal society . |
| 29 | The Doctor had grinned , rather sheepishly it seemed to Britta . |
| 30 | At 1 p.m. it rode round Madrid with the other Councils in full dress to restore order and in the following days it co-operated with the French authorities in the collection of arms . |