Example sentences of "it [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the Church could not preserve men 's minds from modern heresy ; it failed in the campaign to exclude ‘ dangerous ’ books nor could it prevent the influence of contacts established by Aranda and others with the French intellectuals . |
| 2 | To monitor the course of the project , that is , to study the implementation of the action project design , to find out whether it operated in the way envisaged , using the means planned , and to examine any problems which arose and any unanticipated consequences . |
| 3 | The tribunal was told that , following a review , the company decided to make redundant 16 drivers at the quarries it operated in the East Midlands . |
| 4 | Vizigothic in origin , with its Bishop Boèce at the Third Toledo Council in 589 , and worth besieging in 673 , it shared in the collapse of the Spanish kingdom of Toledo , and the Muslims moved in , though not for long . |
| 5 | That was the first occasion when I saw my exercising as an irritating use of time , because it got in the way of our friendship . |
| 6 | It got in the way when she had tried to cry yet it allowed no room for self-pity . |
| 7 | It seemed to Carolyn that there must be a vividly speeded up life flitting through the infant 's dreams , as if it skimmed in the air like a bird over the facts of its life and they were reflected as changingly and as unknowingly on its face as the moving bird would be in seas , rivers , lakes , in stagnant puddles on flat roofs , and silted-up canals . |
| 8 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 9 | Pascoe watched a globe as it glowed in the darkness , then rose and fell in a sizzling arc . |
| 10 | Polonium is a strong alpha emitter , however , until the Americans made an atomic bomb , no one had ever used polonium in any appreciable amount ; it was so radioactive that it glowed in the dark . |
| 11 | Liturgically , it centred in the sacrament of the eucharist : there was the heart and focus of the life and worship of the church , the key and core of its participation in the life of Christ . |
| 12 | The third element that made Easy Rider the runaway , roaraway success that it became in the counter-culture movement was Jack Nicholson , angry and surely envious — though he denied it — at seeing some of his flash contemporaries and some younger actors making it very big indeed in the legitimacy of more sumptuous surroundings of Warners , Paramount , MGM and the rest . |
| 13 | Sien had ‘ that Dolorosa expression ’ which had affected him so deeply when he had seen it depicted in the picture Woman in Mourning . |
| 14 | It was , in fact , the work of his son , William , and Miller comments ‘ I was first favoured by this sort by Mr. Peter Collinson , FRS and afterwards received a plant with a drawing of it made in the country where it grows , by Mr. John Bartram , JR , and have since been furnished with more plants by Dr. Benzel of Germantown in Philadelphia , who found it growing plentifully in shady , moist places . ’ |
| 15 | It arose in the context of the thinking of people whose job it is to think big . |
| 16 | The next five years will be a battle — much of it fought in the Governor 's quarterly meeting with Lu Ping , head of Peking 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office . |
| 17 | Originally it met in the hall of the local Anglican Church . |
| 18 | It met in the evenings in the leaking old Eastern Infants School . |
| 19 | Ginguene 's most valuable next sentence suggests that the director 's baton had been waved all the time : it ‘ indicated by its strokes the end of each so-called bar and , by the various signs that it traced in the air , the various interpolations or divisions of that bar . ’ |
| 20 | There was a good bed along one side of the small , square room , a bench and a heavy table , even a brazier ; and most wonderful of all , there was a high window , narrow and barred and unshuttered , but if it let in the wind , it let in the light and the sun , too . |
| 21 | There was a good bed along one side of the small , square room , a bench and a heavy table , even a brazier ; and most wonderful of all , there was a high window , narrow and barred and unshuttered , but if it let in the wind , it let in the light and the sun , too . |
| 22 | A Monopolies and Mergers Commission inquiry into credit cards recommended the abolition of the ‘ no discrimination ’ clause in agreements between banks and their retailers when it reported in the summer . |
| 23 | Eventually it stopped in the middle of nowhere . |
| 24 | But Dagenham council won a court order to make the hut safe after it sagged in the rain . |
| 25 | Someone hears it mentioned in the Bazaar and runs to U hu with a warning . |
| 26 | Registered XB-AKM and named Conquistadores , it crashed in the Potomac River at Washington on the return flight , killing Sarabia . |
| 27 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 28 | Neither Taskopruzade nor Mecdi gives any clue concerning the date of Molla Arab 's appointment to the Muftilik ( beyond the fact that it is implicit that it occurred in the reign of Bayezid II ) , although both state that he died as Mufti of Istanbul in 901/1495–6 . |
| 29 | In January President Saddam , speaking on Iraq 's Army Day , referred to having reminded ‘ the gang … in Iran ’ of ‘ the disasters it sustained in the July 1984 battles ’ . |
| 30 | So the wise woman , taking a whip in her hand , seated herself on a small carpet and lashed it with the whip until it rose in the air and carried her to the forest . |