Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A writer called Thomas Carlyle described it in 1824 as ‘ A frightful scene … a dense cloud of pestilential smoke hangs over it forever … and at night the whole region becomes like a volcano spitting fire from a thousand tubes of brick . ’ |
| 2 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 3 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
| 4 | May Roberts Rinehart used it to excellent effect in The Circular Staircase . |
| 5 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 6 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 7 | Scott heard it at last and looked around , fumbling for the taps , trying to turn off the shower . |
| 8 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 9 | Editor , — An important reason why paracetamol-methionine is rarely prescribed is that when Sterling Winthrop introduced it in 1986 under the brand name Pameton the Department of Health refused to add it to the list of medicines prescribable within the NHS because it saw ‘ no clinical need . ’ |
| 10 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 11 | Tom grinned an enormous grin across the table and said , ‘ You 're cheating , because a ) what are your natural circumstances if it 's not the very existence of coal , b ) I do n't believe Engels said it at all and , c ) even if he did , that does n't make it true because he was working with an outmoded scientific model . |
| 12 | Where Ann wrote it for last year , for my ri |
| 13 | Margaret Irwin cited it as another process from which women were excluded for what seemed to her good reason : " It requires both muscular strength and a certain " knack " . |
| 14 | It defines material which ‘ any reasonable person ’ ( a judge , for example ) would find ‘ shocking , disgusting and revolting ’ , as Lord Denning the then Master of the Rolls defined it in 1976 . |
| 15 | Sweden more than doubled its crop area between 1840 and 1880 , Italy and Denmark expanded it by more than half , Russia , Germany and Hungary by about a third . |
| 16 | 5 Instead of multiplying a number by 42 , Jane multiplied it by 24 and got 432 . |
| 17 | In 1985 , its Labour majority was bigger than that of the Tories and the people of Derbyshire re-elected it in 1989 : they are satisfied with Derbyshire county council 's policies , and when we have the general election they will kick out the Under-Secretary of State and the hon. Member for Amber Valley ( Mr. Oppenheim ) , the man with the Pampers on . |
| 18 | Wickham quashed it with some hard questions . |
| 19 | The original impulse had been non-denominational , but by the late 1790s the Anglican Church was drawing apart to go its own way , fearful that Methodism especially was gaining converts and even , as the Bishop of Rochester expressed it in 1800 : " Schools of Jacobinical religion and Jacobinical politics abound in this country in the shape of charity schools and Sunday schools . " |
| 20 | Giles Aplin examined it with some interest before consigning it to a buttoned pocket without comment . |
| 21 | He had spent most of his life in England and admired both the feudal-system efficiency and military skills of the Norman knights who had administered that country since William of Normandy conquered it in 1066 . |
| 22 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 23 | These did not fruit well at Chelsea but by now the tomato , also known as the love-apple , had become well known in England ( it had been introduced in the sixteenth century , when Gerard considered it of little value ) and was much used in soups . |
| 24 | She watched as Roman poured it into small white cups . |
| 25 | An insurance cover note also said it was a 1.6 and Jackson sold it as such to Robert Ross , of Bridgegate , Barnard Castle , for £3,695 . |
| 26 | When the botanical writer John Worlidge described it in 1676 , he called the fruit ananas , a Brazilian dialect word , but went on to call it a ‘ fruit like a pineapple but much bigger ’ . |
| 27 | When Josiah Wedgwood visited it in 1773 it had ‘ the appearance of a considerable Seaport town . |
| 28 | Suddenly the suburban street outside the school was blasted by an explosion louder than anything heard there since the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1944 . |
| 29 | Crossman joined it on 29th April 1969 . |
| 30 | William Rausch flew it in 1932 in the New York to Cleveland Leeds Trophy Race and the Sohio Mystery Derby . |