Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [prep] [num] " 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 | Alcock found it within one minute of starting his regular binocular search of the sky , after nine nights of cloud . |
| 3 | After completing the orchestral score , Reger reworked it for two pianos , but this version for piano duet has more of the original material . |
| 4 | This was certainly how Keynes saw it in one of his last memoranda , in February 1946 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 5 Instead of multiplying a number by 42 , Jane multiplied it by 24 and got 432 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Church of Scotland bought it in 1960 for £27,500 and opened it as an eventide home two years later . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | When Josiah Wedgwood visited it in 1773 it had ‘ the appearance of a considerable Seaport town . |
| 15 | Suddenly the suburban street outside the school was blasted by an explosion louder than anything heard there since the Luftwaffe bombed it in 1944 . |
| 16 | William Rausch flew it in 1932 in the New York to Cleveland Leeds Trophy Race and the Sohio Mystery Derby . |
| 17 | No notice should be taken of the frequently reiterated statement that Wordsworth lacked humour : of course he had a sense of humour — ‘ sly humour ’ , Hazlitt called it in 1825 , and added , ‘ he has a peculiar sweetness in his smile ’ . |
| 18 | A bewitching Arcadia when Samuel Gordon scanned it in 1869 , the sweeping panorama , spreading out from Eston Nab , is now a discordant jumble of industry , housing , dual-carriage roads and pylons . |
| 19 | But ESA delayed it for five years , mainly so that this prestige project could be launched on the European launcher Ariane . |
| 20 | Robert Garrard joined it in 1780 , followed by three sons : it became known as Garrard , the Crown jewellers . |
| 21 | Taking care with her napkin , Sarella folded it into eight equal parts . |
| 22 | As J. Wade put it in 1842 , ‘ The immorality of marrying without the means of supporting a family is a doctrine of recent promulgation . ’ |
| 23 | The hotel was built in 1848 as a coaching inn by Frances Anne Vane Tempest , Marchioness of Londonderry whose great grandson , Sir Winston Churchill inherited it in 1921 . |
| 24 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 25 | Connon read it with one sweep of the eyes . |
| 26 | As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them . |
| 27 | Three legends share the quickest century but Bernard Ganley , David Watkins and Steve Quinn did it in 18 games . |
| 28 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 29 | Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 . |
| 30 | Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute . |