Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When chemists vapourised potassium nitrate and trapped it an argon matrix , however , they were surprised to discover that it contained molecules with the chemical formula KNO 3 . |
| 2 | I once garnered a useful titbit about Indian life from a documentary about the highest balloon flight in the world because I happened to see that it took place in the centre of the Indian sub-continent where the air can be particularly still . |
| 3 | We talked for many weeks , and gradually he genuinely came to see my point of view and to agree that it made sense . |
| 4 | Ian Smales 's try and Fox 's fourth goal tied the scores again with 10 minutes to go and it took Fox 's drop to separate the sides . |
| 5 | The Vimy was a heavy machine to handle and it took Jack all his strength to hold her steady . |
| 6 | It started to rain as it grew dark outside . |
| 7 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 8 | India , which in the 1960s led the fight in international agencies against rigid copyright rules , was the first to realise that it needed copyright and patents to protect and regularise its own emerging knowledge-based industries . |
| 9 | It comes as no surprise to learn that it took director Peter Greenaway a very long time to find a film company that would consider his script for more than 30 seconds . |
| 10 | And it 's no exaggeration to say that it took years of sifting through the wreckage of myself to find a woman I could begin to take some pride in again . |
| 11 | In the first three years of the experiment not a single pedestrian was injured seriously enough while crossing the road to feel that it warranted reporting . |