Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 2 | He jerked his hand back as if it had received an electric shock : a cheek nerve had quivered . |
| 3 | During his meeting with Japanese Foreign Minister Tsutomu Hata , he was assured that Japan would continue to support India if it decided to seek an extended funding facility from the IMF . |
| 4 | Some could even accept Spencer 's philosophy of progress through struggle , because it seemed to offer an updated version of the Protestant work ethic in which thrift and industry were rewarded in this world as well as the next . |
| 5 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 6 | While it did establish an institutional structure , its meetings were sporadic and its commitments overlapped -with those of NATO , the Council of Europe and OEEC . |
| 7 | The Iraqi jet was shot down inside a United Nations ' no-fly zone after it turned to challenge an American F-16 pilot . |
| 8 | Another similar adjective is platonic which equally clearly must have been used associatively , to mean having a link with Plato ( as indeed it still does in one of its senses ) before it came to have an ascriptive value roughly equivalent to chaste . |
| 9 | It comes as no coincidence that Juan , who first pioneered electro in the early '80s as part of Cybertron before making the first Detroit records on Model 500 , took his hiatus from the arena when it had become an overcrowded circus . |
| 10 | RTC says the suit was filed against AA when it failed to negotiate an out-of-court settlement . |
| 11 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 12 | Drink never loosened his tongue , though it did have an effect on his sizable nose which , like Bardolph 's , was a beacon in the dark . |
| 13 | A robotic dispenser arm was whirring nervously and jabbing into Bernice 's neck as it tried to locate an item that was n't there from a shelf that had been removed . |
| 14 | It happened when a Chipmunk light aircraft from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire hit the ground as it tried to make an emergency landing in Wales . |
| 15 | At Chelsea they burned coal in winter as it tended to give an even heat , whereas wood burned too quickly and peat had a strong smell . |