Example sentences of "the [noun sg] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Electrophone did not diminish box office receipts — on the contrary it tempted subscribers to flock to the West End to see the ‘ real thing ’ . |
| 2 | The Picture that had so nearly secured its hold faded from the refracting blankness in the instant it took Harry to realize what it was that Kingdom wanted from him . |
| 3 | Despite the pleasure it gave Minton to walk into a friend 's house and find his own wallpaper , purchased without his friend knowing he had designed it , he did not take his interest in this area much further . |
| 4 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 5 | Within the business it guaranteed capital , perhaps useful business contacts , and above all reliable managers . |
| 6 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 7 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 8 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 9 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 10 | In September the Ivoirien government cut the price it paid cocoa farmers for the second time since July , to CFA200 per kilogramme ( £368 a tonne ) . |
| 11 | Recollection of the day it visited Millbrook is especially spine-chilling . |
| 12 | When it was on the ground it looked kind of lost . |
| 13 | In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move . |
| 14 | Despite a string of appearances from the bench it took Watson more than a year to open his account , finally breaking his duck in the 2-1 second leg win over Spora in Luxembourg in the last round . |
| 15 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 16 | And he said as he drove off down the road it went rattle rattle rattle rattle and there were these hole little holes in the side of his van . . |
| 17 | For the Greek it meant student , pupil or apprentice . |
| 18 | It went to the womb it met knife |
| 19 | It went to the womb it met maggot and rottenness |
| 20 | It went to the womb it met blood |
| 21 | But , melancholy as the deserted and shattered city might seem to a casual visitor , to men out of the line it spelled life . |
| 22 | The loyalty that he inspired was genuine , but in the end it became self-defeating , as Kinnock himself realised — witness his damaging refusal to state his own position on electoral reform , lest it should close off discussion . |
| 23 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 24 | After redesigning from scratch the way it processed orders from customers , it has cut delivery times from 8-12 weeks to ‘ days ’ even while using 35% fewer people to do the job . |
| 25 | But in spite of the way it looked Martin had faked his own death — and done it damned successfully . |
| 26 | ‘ The initial attraction was advertising , ’ he says , ‘ and particularly the way it achieved communication in such a slick way . |
| 27 | the way it swigged litres of fresh water |
| 28 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
| 29 | BATTERED by low prices for oil and gas , Bow Valley Industries , an energy company based in Calgary , Alberta , with sales of C$142m ( $100m ) in 1992 , decided two years ago to rethink the way it did business . |
| 30 | The Hudson 's Bay Company would have had to change the way it did business completely if it wanted to convert its coastal settlements to which Indians came to sell their furs into bases from which fur trading parties went into the interior . |