Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years .
2 European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future .
3 Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort .
4 Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ?
5 They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry .
6 I only did it to impress that lot .
7 Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
8 I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that
9 He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way .
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