Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through all the Bird generations it passed down to today . |
| 2 | But it was certainly not one-way traffic in front of an absorbed 19,528 crowd although Dean Saunders had the ball in the net for Villa as early as the tenth minute only to see it wiped out for offside . |
| 3 | I do n't know what size gun it was , you know , or any details but that 's what we found out what the bang was and it , it moved on to somewhere else , they did n't fire it again . |
| 4 | It was a happy phrase which made people feel better , and it caught on at once ; and it has remained as a convenient label to cover the series of domestic reforms which the Roosevelt administration introduced between 1933 and 1938 . |
| 5 | It caught on over here some years later with the Seven Men of Preston setting the trend . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ In the end it came down to just two letters . |
| 7 | Fortunately I had heavy duty minders in the form of my sister , Karen , mum and aunt , who were able to keep the kids in line while I translated the menu and discovered it came down to largely burgers , chicken , steaks and ‘ flipper friendly ’ fish . |
| 8 | It measured up to precisely what he felt himself and he decided to put it to a higher power . |
| 9 | Lachlan ordered it served out at once . |
| 10 | I bet it , as regards it cut down to about five |
| 11 | That this would n't happen , except it had the consent , sometimes — and I fear Nick Ridley fell into this — it wobbled over except aft — into — after consultation . |
| 12 | Now the company has 270 staff ( it started out with just 30 three years ago ) , has increased production by 20% over the past year and has a turnover of £l2m ( it expects that to rise to £l4m next year ) . |
| 13 | In finishing I would say that starting to change fluids can be a daunting prospect and I can assure you our firm played about with fluids and got some ropey results , and even thought we had the chemical company taped and could use less fluid , it worked out at about 3 oz per 80 oz with dye added and boy , did we have colour , it was brilliant . |
| 14 | She rested on the boulder and from it looked down to where the river ran shallow and offered a breeding ground to a lively population of insects . |
| 15 | This proved rather funny because when we went round a sharp bend , the cupboard door flew open , the porta-potty rolled out like a cheap-thrills show , and on the next bend it rolled back in again and the door closed ! |
| 16 | It went up to there and slipped down again . |
| 17 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 18 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 19 | I ca n't remember much about that first talk , but it went on for much longer than the five to ten minutes it was supposed to last . |
| 20 | The Factor named a price , Antinou countered and so it went on for quite a while . |
| 21 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 22 | ‘ It went on for about an hour , and although we could n't see anything we could feel what was happening to them . |
| 23 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 24 | Moreover , the whole process was self-perpetuating ; the guest became the host in an act of social revenge and thus it went on for ever . |
| 25 | It looked as though it went on for ever . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I can not say what he actually said because it was so bad , and it went on for so long . |
| 27 | It went on from there . ’ |
| 28 | He put in a good word for me and it went on from there . |
| 29 | It went on from there |
| 30 | So then it went on from there to Canada so it just worked out or appeared to work out that right around the world at that particular time ten or eleven years ago , that nobody was bothered and as you said the Beautiful Dreamers and this sort of stuff until we came along and er but other than that we would be surprised . |