Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moon was low now and the light , wherever it slanted through the trees , seemed thicker , older and more yellow . |
| 2 | The dog landed awkwardly on its hindlegs , losing its balance , and he looked away sharply as it tumbled under the wheels . |
| 3 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 4 | On 3 March 1919 he presented a paper to a conference of management committees of London societies , on the basis of which it agreed to the principles of amalgamation ( Barnes nd , 1940 ) . |
| 5 | Finally , the company donated part of a site which it owned on the shores of Loughrea Lake , to the town of Loughrea … |
| 6 | And Hardy 's were probably the best known fishing tackle shop in the world and it got into the hands of one of the Hardy 's brothers and he said , ‘ May we market it under your name ? ’ and I said , ‘ My God , I 'd rather have that than a knighthood ’ — this was some years ago — and then Hardy 's were rationalized , which means of course that everything costs twice as much and there was n't as much in the shop . |
| 7 | This delayed the advance of the German right wing but of even more importance — it revealed to the Allies the full and deadly impact of the hitherto unknown and undeployed German howitzers . |
| 8 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 9 | After the Chester Beatty sale of 1969 it passed into the hands of a well-known London bookseller , Alan G. Thomas ( who in 1975 published a fine book , Great Books and Book Collectors ) . |
| 10 | The Lanx , a rectangular dish , 48 x 38 cm and weighing over 10lbs , was discovered by chance in February 1734 or 5 in the bank of the River Tyne at Corbridge in Northumberland by the daughter of the local cobbler , from whom it passed into the hands of the Dukes of Northumberland . |
| 11 | Eventually , in 1739 , it passed to the Maisters , a family of Hull merchants . |
| 12 | The train carrying the body of Cadogan West gave a lurch as it passed over the points and the curve in the rails just before Aldgate Station . |
| 13 | The form of order used in M. 's case does not appear as such in The Supreme Court Practice 1991 , but is a standard modernised version of Form No. 85 headed ‘ Order of Committal ( Contemnor Present ) ’ and there is no doubt that it complied with the rules . |
| 14 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It lunged up the stairs again , after them . |
| 17 | It crept through the partitions in the fence . |
| 18 | It crept round the corners of the buildings and hung in the doorways and fled in ragged wisps from the car headlights . |
| 19 | Today , it admitted to the crimes and executions plotted in these corridors and carried out by its men under Stalin . |
| 20 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
| 21 | Sometimes it plunged into the depths of the sea , indicating she was taking a command to the sea-gods from ZEUS ; at other times a blessing from HERA would take the multi-hued arch directly to the door of a worthy mortal family . |
| 22 | They claimed that Saibou 's government had failed to keep promises which it made on the conditions for their return . |
| 23 | None of this meant that war was a rare or unimportant phenomenon in the eighteenth century or that the demands which it made on the peoples of Europe were negligible . |
| 24 | It met in the evenings in the leaking old Eastern Infants School . |
| 25 | It snatched at the windows in the nearby houses and set them rattling in their frames ; it whooshed over the slates and plucked at the loose ones , prising them away and sending them spinning to the ground ; it scurried down through the garden gates , hoisted up handfuls of dead leaves and paper and kicked them scurrying down the pavement . |
| 26 | It dwelt on the problems arising when Irish suspects , caught in police trawls , turned out to be only Republican sympathisers rather than terrorists . |
| 27 | Hudson might have added a second , but taken by surprise to find the ball at his feet , it bounced into the arms of the keeper . |
| 28 | He dropped it , and it bounced down the stairs . |
| 29 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 30 | but it stopped outside the baths . |