Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 2 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 3 | It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video . |
| 4 | In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law . |
| 5 | The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links . |
| 6 | Here it played the same role . |
| 7 | It noted the many differences in historical experience , in values and in interests . |
| 8 | It seemed the least Harry could promise . |
| 9 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 10 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
| 11 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 12 | The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ; |
| 13 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 14 | Originally it gave the same reading as the theatre score ; Purcell made the alteration in order to bring it into line with the printed version . |
| 15 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 16 | It had the same air of dereliction and sadness , but something else too . |
| 17 | It had the same look of sunny cheerfulness as the rest of the house . |
| 18 | I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday . |
| 19 | That 's right , er and it had the same number |
| 20 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 21 | But whatever it was , it had the same effect . |
| 22 | It had the same effect too in China . |
| 23 | Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister . |
| 24 | ‘ It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’ |
| 25 | It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose . |
| 26 | It had the same sort of sense , largely meaningless , amorphous , diffuse , woolly , as applied to ‘ love ’ . |
| 27 | It carried the same headline as the one Mungo had seen in the train : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH . |
| 28 | He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents . |
| 29 | It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size . |