Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 2 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | But it got him in the end . |
| 4 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 5 | She could put up with that if it got her to a city , or within reach of a ve-hickle she could scav . |
| 6 | The former '80s high flier is already well on the way to digging itself out of the mess it got itself into a few years back . |
| 7 | When he sat , it revealed itself as a sticking-plaster , like a small moustache . |
| 8 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 9 | The Virgin bent her head to the dove in pictures of the Annunciation , and it pierced her through the ear , bringing her the Word that was life itself , down into her womb ; that was what Rosa wanted , Tommaso 's mouth next to her ear , until she , like the woman with her lover in the doorway , would wriggle and gasp . |
| 10 | There was a word for that kind of thing : it branded you as a ‘ premature anti-Fascist ’ . |
| 11 | For example , in Lonrho/House of Fraser ( 1979 ) , it concerned itself with the managerial capacity of a particular individual . |
| 12 | She 'd loved the stones it smoothed , and its wildness when it flung itself over the promenade wall , scattering gravel and driftwood . |
| 13 | To him it became something between a playroom and a church . |
| 14 | Owen confessed that it became something of a joke to say , at the end of telephone calls , ‘ Say hello to our friend Ivan . ’ |
| 15 | It became something of a ritual that the cars stopped at the Oxford Hotel in Marton , where a photographer snapped the passengers . |
| 16 | Soon it became something of a prop . ’ |
| 17 | And it came home to me that you know we all had to come to terms in some way with erm with what it was all about and the kids and you know and it became something of a I mean i it was the experience that we went through you know it was i it was you know something that we 'll always remember I think because it 'll always make Christmas different I think for us in a way you know but it And when they came up from South Wales with car loads and van loads and I mean we all just sobbed you know I mean there was nothing to do really you know it was just and I think anyway that was Christmas , but I mean er . |
| 18 | Indeed , it became something of an asset in formulating a public persona . |
| 19 | It manifested itself in the small hours at such an advanced stage that no cure save amputation of the head could bring relief . |
| 20 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 21 | Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme . |
| 22 | Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes . |
| 23 | It oppressed him like the static heat of the big sun — the lion sun — when nothing stirs . |
| 24 | And it produced nothing like the furore that the almost contemporary list of ‘ Great British Novelists ’ did . |
| 25 | Poetry was the starting point for Formalist literary theory , and it lent itself in a very obvious way to the differential definition of literariness . |
| 26 | I saw again the one that escaped the Grounds and died just before it made it to the stream . |
| 27 | It changed itself into a stream of electronic signals and dived head-first into the TARDIS . ’ |
| 28 | They argue that , for Whitehouse in particular , though after the war her formal ties with the Oxford Group diminished , her years of close association with it provided her with a very clear intellectual approach to the perceived ills of the modern world . |
| 29 | His own contribution was to suggest ways in which the legal process exerted a powerful influence over delinquents : it provided them with a vocabulary which enabled them to justify their delinquent actions ‘ in the circumstances ’ ( ‘ techniques of neutralisation ’ ) and with a sense of injustice which helped to release them from feelings of obligation to conform . |
| 30 | The French were only ready to discuss a common market if it provided them with a high tariff ‘ wall ’ against outsiders and if there were complicated measures to guarantee equality of competition between members . |