Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It hurt us , it hurt them and it hurt the sport . |
| 2 | This was the product of much research , which Macdonell thought poorly rewarded financially , but the book was admired by military experts and it illustrated the range of his abilities . |
| 3 | It developed into the small , but well-endowed parish of St. John the Baptist in Bedford and it escaped the destruction and confiscation of property that was the lot of monasteries and most hospitals during the Reformation . |
| 4 | and then after that you 've got all the water left and it cleaned the sink as you as the pump pumped it out , you could go quickly with a brush round the sink and suds cleaned all the sink for you , or you could with your pail . |
| 5 | It gave a better living standard to farmers , helped an area of the EEC economy which ( except for Holland ) was labour-intensive and inefficient , and it led the Community to grow more of its own food , guaranteeing supplies to consumers . |
| 6 | And er then you had a cotter that you drove in underneath it , and it secured the pick because |
| 7 | And it made the song . ’ |
| 8 | His Mum did , and it made the place freezing . |
| 9 | The Assembly approved a law to " perpetuate the memory of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle in law " and declaring Oct. 23 a national holiday ; it also unanimously approved a statement of intent on joining the Council of Europe ; and it accepted the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth of the Hungarian Socialist Party ( the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ) , but requested him to remain in office at the head of an interim government until a replacement government had been formed . |
| 10 | During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams . |
| 11 | It was , however , probably the best that Roosevelt could hope to achieve politically , and it became the basis of extensions in the post-war years . |
| 12 | Wim and Lia Van Leer were determined that their cinema should stay open every night , and it became the focus of almost weekly demonstrations . |
| 13 | There is something about pavements which creates a great stir , and it became the focus of attention . |
| 14 | The Miners ' Welfare had long been the central social institution , and it became the focus of activity during the strike too . |
| 15 | Under the empire , in large towns , the shops were cleared and it became the site for more magnificent buildings devoted to the administration of justice , bureaucracy and commerce , as well as for worship . |
| 16 | And when it was n't working on the farm a transport on the back and a bag of straw to sit on and it became the family 's personal transport . |
| 17 | The Global Strategy paper that they produced pleased Churchill , and it became the starting point for the development of British military strategy in the nuclear era . |
| 18 | The biggest breakthrough in the farm came with the arrival on the scene of a small grey tractor called a Fergie and it seemed as though almost everybody had at least one and it became the jack of all trades on the farm and implements which had previously been pulled by horses had their shafts removed and couplings were made to fit them behind the tractor . |
| 19 | It was what we know as recitative and it became the staple of opera in musica . |
| 20 | After the Tale of Old Saul I put the catapult to another use , and it became the Killer ; scourge of hamsters , mice and gerbils . |
| 21 | It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery . |
| 22 | Its board had been largely Africanized , and it adopted the view expressed by Mr Sijaona . |
| 23 | The report should have said ‘ if war permits ’ for , by October 1915 when the Annual General Meeting was reported in the Standard it was only the third press account that year and it indicated the Club was in dire straits . |
| 24 | Invented in 1589 , when Elizabeth I was on the throne of England , the ‘ stocking frame ’ came into use when the demand for stockings was from both sexes , and it signalled the birth of a great industry , although recognition of its revolutionary potential was slow in coming , and William Lee died penniless in Paris . |
| 25 | Anyway , the Masai threw a spear and it struck the DO . ’ |
| 26 | That was their stake and it detonated the kind of politics which are the stuff of socialism in our society . |
| 27 | The cat turned and looked at them , and it pawed the air . |
| 28 | Although the Commission found it ‘ disturbing ’ , it asserted that the damage was not the same as that seen abroad and it blamed the winter of 1983/4 . |
| 29 | Lastly , in the project for a prison institution that was then developing , punishment was seen as a technique for the coercion of individuals ; it operated methods of training the body — not signs — by the traces it leaves , in the form of habits , in behaviour ; and it presupposed the setting up of a specific power for the administration of the penalty ( ibid. , p. 130–1 ) . |
| 30 | Thus , although Mary 's first House of Commons readily accepted the restoration of Catholic doctrine and liturgy , it initially refused to repeal the Henrician anti-papal legislation , and it delayed the reconciliation with Rome until Pope Julius III had secured the future of secularized ecclesiastical property by guaranteeing the rights of existing lay holders . |