Example sentences of "it [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( It ceased operating in 1985 . ) |
| 2 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 3 | The sun broke through , it stopped raining at last . |
| 4 | It hung glittering like early morning cobwebs on her rolling pin . |
| 5 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 6 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 7 | It began trading in 1971 as the subsidiary of a Germany company before being bought over by its management team in 1987 . |
| 8 | It started raining in sparkling sheets , the technicians pouring water down from above his eyeline onto him . |
| 9 | Sir David , knighted in 1982 , has swung his paper behind critical issues : it started campaigning on environmental issues a year ago just as the Conservatives switched tack . |
| 10 | The Dad 's Music programme has been running on Middlesbrough 's local radio station ever since it started broadcasting in 1970 . |
| 11 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 12 | Carrying anything by land was still expensive , even in settled areas , and was even more expensive when there were no roads — Roger Williams travelled only 50 miles from Boston to set up Rhode Island but this was a serious matter when it meant marching through uncut forest . |
| 13 | I took hold of the snow hook , but to release it meant hauling in some slack on the line . |
| 14 | It went searching through all space for nothingness |
| 15 | It remained floating for some minutes , with lights burning at the upper windows and people shouting for help , and then finally sank . |