Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One entire wall was constructed as a glass cliff down which fell a waterfall some six feet wide ; the pool into which it tumbled smoked with spray and the whole effect was disconcerting , as of some plumbing disaster on a majestic scale . |
| 2 | Management could be faced ‘ with severe economic losses if it failed to take into account their views , or to win their consent on issues which were felt to be of major importance by the workforce ’ ( p. 314 ) . |
| 3 | Given all this , a chapter about kitchens and kitchen decoration would be illogical to say the least , if it failed to take into account the room or area where food is served , which should bc as pleasant a place as possible . |
| 4 | Consequently , unlike Canterbury , it failed to keep in line with the Roman practice when the fourteenth day of the moon fell on a Sunday . |
| 5 | Oh it got kicked into touch did that cos it too loud . |
| 6 | Police sealed off the road to the cliff top when it became jammed with traffic and ordered a helicopter to circle the wreck to deter looters . |
| 7 | The cave was formed some time during the early part of the Pleistocene , over one million years ago , and it became filled with sediment during the middle Pleistocene approximately 350 to 400 thousand years ago . |
| 8 | During the first part of the 20th century , because of its proximity to Nailsworth Station , it became known as Station Mill , although it was still referred to locally by its old name . |
| 9 | Then it spread to Australia , where it became known as kangaroo paw ! |
| 10 | In 1983 it became known as CARE ( Christian Action Research and Education ) . |
| 11 | It helped set in motion renewed enthusiasm for tree clearance in upland catchment areas as yet another aspect of the land drainage solution . |
| 12 | It received backing from venture capital firm 3i . |
| 13 | How it deserved to go to Paradise . ’ |
| 14 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 15 | It is certain that LIFFE could not match the CBoT 's or the CME 's liquidity in these contracts if it came to head on competition . |
| 16 | First of all the local authority 's S S A as you know , has not been as we would have wished it to be , and that gives us less headroom for er , manoeuvring as it were er , with the various committees , and secondly the community care money is now solely distributed through the S S A whereas last year fifty percent of it came relating to usage . |
| 17 | It seemed fitting for Thatcherism to end , not with a bang , but with the protracted whimper of a ‘ hung ’ parliament ; with the Tories struggling on for days trying to patch up some squalid deal with the Ulster Unionists , before Neil Kinnock and Paddy Ashdown were driven to 10 Downing Street in their Daimlers . |
| 18 | Whether or not the Commission had now fallen under the influence of the CEGB , it seemed taken by surprise when the Scottish Friends of the Earth invited Dr Joachim Puhe from Professor Ulrich 's team at Gottingen University to survey British sites ‘ likely ’ to show forest decline . |
| 19 | As she listened it seemed to rise in intensity so that she could imagine , with an agreeable frisson of simulated terror , that the low friable cliffs had finally crumbled and that the white foaming turbulence was rolling towards them across Alex 's face . |
| 20 | Since CR-1409 did not interfere with circulating concentrations of the hormone , it seemed to work by receptor blockade . |
| 21 | ‘ We were in the business of giving the public what it seemed to want in entertainment , ’ Balcon later recalled . |
| 22 | When the horse reared as Ana 's had done it seemed to grow in stature , holding the stance endlessly and then leaping into that strange jump , its forelegs not touching the ground . |
| 23 | She sketched even faster , wanting to get everything down before it began to pour with rain . |
| 24 | As the fashion for silk and then for tea and a little later for porcelain developed , the Company looked for Indian products to export to China , and it began dealing in opium . |
| 25 | Slowly it began to dawn on school board trustees and education bureaucrats that immigrants were not only voters , they were also tax payers . |
| 26 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 27 | By the 1580s Lythe 's survey was being copied by other artists in simplified form and after 1590 the substance of it began to appear in print . |
| 28 | Grilled Dover sole ( not buttery ) , be assertive about any plain grilled white fish , tell the waiter that you do not want it served swimming with butter . |
| 29 | I kept this dark secret for 15 years — but when it started happening in front of the children , I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 30 | Mr Sher Azam , convener of the meeting and president of the Bradford Council of Mosques , said the government had shown a ‘ total disregard ’ for British Muslims when it decided to go to war . |