Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legally registered only since late February , Rukh also performed well in the west of the republic ( a nationalist heartland ) , where it took control of the Lvov city soviet . |
| 2 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 3 | The company , which makes high barrier flexible packaging for the food industry , moved machinery , materials and all its support equipment from Courtaulds ' Bridgwater site , where it began life in the mid-1980s , ten miles down the motorway to a purpose-built new unit . |
| 4 | Charles Nupen , a strike mediator , announced on Jan. 26 that a settlement between the two sides had been reached whereby SATS agreed to recognize SARHWU and to negotiate wages and conditions of service with the union in areas where it obtained registrations under the Labour Relations Act . |
| 5 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 6 | Although it contained elements of Baal and Astarte worship , it was essentially monotheistic . |
| 7 | Although it achieved sales of £65 million in the last financial year , it has shed a hundred and twenty of its six hundred staff . |
| 8 | But although it brought victory to the Black Prince , the battle of Nájera was to be the cause of the renewal of the war which had been halted in 1360 . |
| 9 | Although it stood cheek by jowl with the factory , it was a place apart , a business apart , and an interest apart . |
| 10 | This was one of the largest silk mills in the vicinity , although it started life as a corn mill . |
| 11 | In the north , at Corbridge , a large building with a veranda and an ornamental fountain has been claimed as a mansio , although it started life as a winged-corridor house probably during the third century . |
| 12 | One box in Lincolnshire had the manifestations of a poltergeist or mischievous ghost apparent in the building but it was of a gentle nature and although it moved cups of tea and generally showed its mischievous attributes , it never hurt anybody and was not vicious or dangerous . |
| 13 | It can not have pleased Kimon , the Spartans ' friend , any more than it pleased politicians of more obviously radical complexion . |
| 14 | Accordingly investment in this sector probably led more than it followed investment in agriculture or manufacturing . |
| 15 | It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years . |
| 16 | The teetotal movement had another important effect : once it took root in America it strengthened the Anglo-American bond . |
| 17 | Len 's mining area the Rhondda now has no pits , when once it gave work to a hundred thousand men . |
| 18 | To tell the truth I have only hazy memories of the magazine that I took for a long time and until it ceased publication for reasons that were beyond me . |
| 19 | From 1922 until it ceased publication in 1951 he edited Y Llenor , the highly successful Welsh quarterly journal , to which many of the leading Welsh writers of the period frequently contributed . |
| 20 | As people tried and failed , the cash on offer accumulated until it reached $17,000 on the day Ed went on court . |
| 21 | However , the CITUB announced that it would continue its strike until it saw guarantees of the character of the new government . |
| 22 | However there were indications that Congress would delay proceedings until it received assurances of improvements in Mexico 's human rights record and evidence of fair elections [ see below ] . |
| 23 | The Department of Health said it would not comment until it received details of the proposals . |
| 24 | During a violent storm it broke away and drifted westwards until it hit land on the barren headland of San Quentin . |
| 25 | Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists . |
| 26 | Sri Lanka would never have such problems if the country relied on its own resources — if it cultivated appreciation of native food and agricultural systems which have evolved over centuries to meet the population 's needs . |
| 27 | One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war . |
| 28 | If it took years for the French to persuade us to buy their cheeses , then selling a microscopic plant grown in a factory must sound like a marketing nightmare . |
| 29 | The real competition , the old-style conception of the battle for survival , may have taken place , if it took place at all , between the plants that provided the reptiles with their food . |
| 30 | Rather its provisions will deem the transfer to be treated as if it took place on an earlier specified date . |