Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The property in Halling then came into the family of Melford , later it was sold to the family of Raynwell , who held it until the reign of Henry VII , when it passed through several hands among them , Whornes and Levesons , Barber , Golding , Wood and then to W. Baker . |
| 32 | For example , if money supply were £10 billion , and money as it passed from one person to another was spent on average eight times a year on national output , then total spending ( MV ) would be £80 billion a year . |
| 33 | A few hours later , it passed by seventy votes to twenty-three . |
| 34 | It complied with that request in the time allowed . |
| 35 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 25 reported that some government officials and members of the armed forces had welcomed the creation of the Forum , provided that it complied with strict government guidelines on political behaviour . |
| 36 | By then it amounted to 8,000 volumes ; and by 1792 , at the outbreak of war between revolutionary France and most of Europe , this figure had risen to 12,000 . |
| 37 | With bank interest over the years it amounted to some £320,000-certainly enough to meet the Ingard cheque . |
| 38 | It amounted to unlikely total of 521 , and Warwickshire required 314 to win . |
| 39 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 40 | Unfortunately they were again delayed by rough terrain , and when they got to the road they found it choked with German armour heading for the front . |
| 41 | It did not say that the BBC wanted an experienced journalist' : it asked for relevant experience . |
| 42 | It asked about six months in a limited industry , and I gave an accurate answer on that . |
| 43 | Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes . |
| 44 | Atari recently sent a shiver through the industry when it laid off 1700 employees . |
| 45 | He opened the car door and dropped his cigarette end on to the concreted surface where it glowed with vulgar ruddiness on the silver sharpness of the frost till he ground it under his foot as he stepped out . |
| 46 | It lived in back streets of terrace houses and on sprawling housing estates . |
| 47 | It lived in freshwater lakes in southern Pangaea in the later Permian , and became less of a sprawler , swinging its limbs from the shoulders to the hips , thus lengthening its stride . |
| 48 | On the other hand , although in recent years the regulation of the financial services industry has generated a lot of judicial review applications against regulatory bodies , the courts have discouraged these largely because they do not want court proceedings to be used as tactical weapons to delay financial transactions by parties disappointed by the failure of a regulatory body to give the applicant the protection it sought from financial predators . |
| 49 | Since the product bore her name , it became of paramount importance to her to maintain an image of which she approved . |
| 50 | It became like slow motion . |
| 51 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 52 | You will find it sold under various brand names . |
| 53 | ‘ Well , that 's what it recommended in this angling magazine I was reading . |
| 54 | And also last Friday at education committee there was a long debate , both on the procedure which would be adopted by the working party , in discharging it 's remit and in particular the policy which it recommended regarding small schools , and also an extended debate on one of the areas which was a subject of recommendation by the er , district auditor which concerns the organisation of first and middle schooling in the Meer area , and there the working party did look very specifically at the recommendation that was made by the district auditor that decided on balance that that was n't likely to produce the best and most cost effective education in that part of the county . |
| 55 | What it lacked in glossy technique it made up for in sincerity . |
| 56 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 57 | It smelled of rotten straw , damp and an overpowering stench that caught in her throat , almost choking her . |
| 58 | It smelled of hot cake rising in the oven . |
| 59 | It smelled of expensive cologne , and her skin tingled as he turned his head , his sensuous mouth drifting warmly , dangerously close to her cheek . |
| 60 | Too often it smelled of boiled cabbage and steamed fish . |