Example sentences of "[subord] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 2 | I was I was wondering too , myself , as I was travelling here where where it actually came from because er I do n't remember as a child , myself , doing something like this . |
| 3 | He slid his hand to her hip , where it gently rotated in a maddeningly sensual rhythm . |
| 4 | That night , when he awoke in the full certainty that someone else was in the room , he reached for it , where it usually lay by his headrest ; but he had barely moved before he felt its point at his throat . |
| 5 | But instead of looking at her , he was staring down at her hand where it still lay on his arm . |
| 6 | FitzAlan tossed the gown carelessly on to the stool , where it promptly slithered to the floor . |
| 7 | Its main targets were imports from Asian countries including China , Taiwan , Hong Kong and South Korea , although it also related to other developing countries . |
| 8 | Although it probably began as a lung , over the course of evolution it has become the swimbladder , an ingenious device with which the fish maintains itself as a hydrostat in permanent equilibrium . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the actual origin of the mechanical clock remains a mystery , although it probably occurred towards the end of the thirteenth century . |
| 10 | A truly magical moment that ( although it originally appeared on the pair 's ‘ Sometime In New York City ’ epic ) makes this mess necessary . |
| 11 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 12 | It is a pity that the extent of his involvement with the introduction of monks into Bury St Edmunds is uncertain , although it apparently occurred with his licence . |
| 13 | This is a very special breed , the smallest of those of the Channel Islands , with some unusual features and a remarkable ability to adapt to extreme climates , especially those far hotter than it ever experienced on the island of its isolated development . |
| 14 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 15 | Told him not to let his report run to more than it absolutely had to , and on no account to make a feature piece out of it . |
| 16 | She knows she could have pointed out how troops from India fought alongside the British in the war , or that she was born in that far-off , exotic setting , Middlesbrough General Hospital , and was indeed just on her way home but he was drunk as well as ill-informed , so it hardly seemed worth it . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't get a regular game for Bath 's first team so it never occurred to me that I might be selected , ’ he revealed . |
| 18 | However , Pakistan was accepted into the Non-Aligned Movement once it formally withdrew from CENTO in 1979 . |
| 19 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 20 | The train chugged on northwards , further and further away from the enemy , until it finally came to a halt at Waverley station in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | They had a revolutionary theory that the combined effect of all these ‘ struggles ’ would be to needle and irritate the capitalist system until it finally collapsed in an exhausted heap and died . |
| 22 | The Company struggled on until it finally closed in 1939 . |
| 23 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 24 | He tugged and pulled at it until it eventually moved over his nose and ears , causing his hair to spring up in all directions like soft wire . |
| 25 | If it just went in a straight line it would take fifteen minutes . |
| 26 | His little show would n't stand much chance of survival if it even hinted at a bad ‘ season ’ to come . |
| 27 | If it now came to him in a new way it was no doubt simply an aspect of his belongingness with Marcus and Irina . |
| 28 | But I think it would be glorifying things a bit to say that re-created Cabinet government in its full glory , if it ever existed in its full glory in the nineteenth century , which I frankly rather doubt . |
| 29 | If it ever came to making hard choices over monetary policy or economic policy where the needs of one region or country conflicted with those of Germany , it is fanciful to think that her priorities , as the self-styled ‘ motor ’ of Europe , would not prevail . |
| 30 | On the other hand , I suspected that those concerned with the practical supply of publicly available information to business executives ( whom , after all , the work carried out here was originally intended to help ) would probably not take the trouble to read such a review , if it ever came to fruition , because it would not be practical enough ! |