Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When St John left , it was beginning to snow , and it continued snowing all night and all the next day . |
| 2 | In the eyes of the Department of Energy , wave power on a large scale is uneconomical and it ceased to fund such projects following reviews in 1983 and 1985 . |
| 3 | Rafael Valls acquired an appealing half-length portrait of Miss Juliana Copley by Lawrence ( lot 29 , est. £50,000–70,000 ) for £92,000 , but doubts had been expressed about the condition of the second Lawrence in the sale , a grand full-length portrait of John Allnutt ( lot 30 , est. £300,000–500,000 ) , and it failed to attract any bids . |
| 4 | Chinese Charlie had altered the lot to fit him , and he had pressed it , too , and it had made such a difference to Ben . |
| 5 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 6 | By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair . |
| 7 | And it had become such a popular feature of Samana life . |
| 8 | White and anxious , she said : Yes , she had given that bag to her daughter , and it had contained such chocolates . |
| 9 | In despair at the greasiness of her hair , Daisy had washed it in the river — how the hell had women coped in biblical times ? — and it had dried all crinkly . |
| 10 | I 'd seen the film myself in a mixed audience of youth workers , and it had left many of us women upset and shaken . |
| 11 | The circular acknowledged that the main burden of providing such care would fall on the local authorities and it aimed to ease this by extending provision for the transfer of NHS financial resources to those local authorities or voluntary bodies that offered to develop community care projects specifically for long-stay hospital patients . |
| 12 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 13 | Of the film 's religious imagery , he says : ‘ We talked about the Fifty-First psalm ( which is sung by one of the kitchen boys ) ; it does n't give you many clues , but I was reading it again this morning and it started making more sense . |
| 14 | And it helped to maintain that crazy '70s wartime austerity , by forcing millions of us to flush the lavatory with our bathwater , boil potatoes in the fish pond and wait in yet more queues , this time for standpipe water . |
| 15 | Thursday dawned bright and blue and it decided to stay that way all day through . |
| 16 | Gerver ( 1980 , personal communication ) had reported a high correlation between these measures and foreign language interpreting abilities , and it appeared to make little difference which language the text was presented in . |
| 17 | The more of these properties a dummy possessed the more strongly it was mobbed , but it seemed to make little difference whether the object was a stuffed owl with real plumage or an owl-shaped piece of painted wood . |
| 18 | But it had done that before . |
| 19 | It had taken them only a short time to realise they were from opposite sides in the Therapeutic Wars , but it had caused little friction . |
| 20 | It had never been fully constituted or trained as a squadron , but it had achieved most creditable results nonetheless , with over 100 victories plus many more probables and damaged . |
| 21 | She had wanted everything nice and new for Debbie , but it had taken all their remaining savings . |
| 22 | They had meant it kindly , she knew , but it had hurt all the same . |
| 23 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 24 | Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer . |
| 25 | But it did serve another purpose . |
| 26 | But it did take some time . |
| 27 | Moderator it ca n't be very often that a young minister contradicts a giant of the church in open assembly but it did happen several years ago . |
| 28 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |