Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 2 | It led to their first quarrel . |
| 3 | It occurred to me first that she was playing some dangerous role — as in her old undercover days — perhaps trying to gain some sort of information or advantage . |
| 4 | When it came to her last day at home , she had gone out into the garden for a final look round . |
| 5 | It came to our last school trip . |
| 6 | When it came to my fortieth birthday she said , what would you like for your birthday ? |
| 7 | From his early years , he had been engaged in the creation of a whole world , comparable in scale with the world of Greek mythology , with a pantheon of gods , a hierarchy of elvish immortals , and a vast cycle of stories , some of them ‘ forgotten ’ , or not yet formulated , in his imagination ; some surviving in fragmentary form ; some planned as long prose narratives ; some conceived as great poems , longer than Beowulf The sheer volume of all this , much of it composed before his fortieth birthday , bears testimony to a rare artistic self-confidence . |
| 8 | It seemed like my last day had come . |
| 9 | The letter , and the reactions to it , confirmed that the CPSU was afflicted with deep factional divisions as it prepared for its 28th congress in July , and that an imminent party split was a very real prospect . |
| 10 | It happened to me last week . ’ |
| 11 | It adds that inflation is likely to be higher and domestic demand slower than it predicted in its last report six months ago . |
| 12 | It dawned on me last season , as we took a first-minute lead over Carlton Town West Saxons , that perhaps it was Fate that plucked pink , 544 , from the hat . |
| 13 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 14 | No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band . |
| 15 | It started with his first kick , and keeping the machine as quiet as possible until clear of the village , he set off for Berkeley . |
| 16 | An almost identical Bill was introduced as a private member 's Bill in the 1973–74 session and successfully completed its passage through the House of Lords , when it fell at its Second Reading in the House of Commons on the dissolution of Parliament . |
| 17 | The gondola which takes skiers from load level up to the skiing area proved as popular with visitors last summer as it had in its first winter , with tourists of all ages and states of infirmity able to enjoy the marvellous view along Loch Eli and the Great Glen . |
| 18 | Such success as it had from its first performance in 1936 onwards has been of the kind discouragingly dubbed as ‘ of esteem ’ . |
| 19 | It split at its second congress in late April . |