Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever . |
| 2 | It posed for them the question , ‘ Are we still the people of God ? ’ |
| 3 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
| 4 | The Austrians joined in because it seemed to them the best way to avoid a resuscitation of ‘ big Bulgaria ’ . |
| 5 | Conversely slave-owners and self-lords on the whole stood by the system because it seemed to them the very foundation of their society and their class . |
| 6 | So delightfully muzzy was she that it seemed to her the night in Nice had never happened … |
| 7 | She hoped it hid from him the blush that fired her cheeks . |
| 8 | Harnack himself defended that development as necessary for the survival of Christian faith in the ancient Graeco-Roman world , but believed it must now be transcended , for it brought with it the immense danger of transforming the original and authentic gospel of love preached and exemplified by Jesus into abstract intellectual formulae , of confusing the husk with the kernel . |
| 9 | It died for me the moment I found Mason in her bed . ’ |
| 10 | It represented for her the opportunity to move from a life of manual labour to a life of intellectual labour . |
| 11 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 12 | It had about it the idealism of youth . |
| 13 | Here , it carried with it the notion of breaking down not only the school/community barrier but also the school/curriculum barrier by suggesting that parents might be directly involved in the education of their children by participating in classes . |
| 14 | The reply may or may not have been arrogant , but , more significantly , it carried within itself the fatality to come . |
| 15 | it depended on what the particular er problem was at the time , if something failed after four or five years it was then covered by insurance by the N H B C or by guarantees |