Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |
| 2 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 3 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 4 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 5 | It affirmed that provision by LEAs of education for under-fives was discretionary not compulsory . |
| 6 | Sainsbury won much publicity when it appointed former Friends of the Earth director Jonathan Porritt to be its environmental policy adviser . |
| 7 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 8 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 9 | It might have been a suitable sales pitch for conglomerates shifting Blood Sweat & tears albums ; it produced some qualms amongst It staffers and others . |
| 10 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 11 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 12 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 13 | In the upshot the SEA , whilst it made some concessions to the political aspirations of the EP , was notable chiefly for its powerful commitment to the economic concept of completing the internal market . |
| 14 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 15 | Rather , the fact that it made any headway at all bears witness to the degree to which wide sections of the British public became alarmed by the apparent drift of Chamberlain 's foreign policy . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , of course , ’ said Holly , as though it made any sense to her . |
| 17 | Not one word of it made any sense at all to him . |
| 18 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 19 | Not that it made any difference to the dead . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 21 | It met such opposition in Jamaica that Wilberforce was persuaded to withdraw it and settle for registries by colonial legislation . |
| 22 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 23 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 24 | It codified these standards for the first time , the technical details of which were the main subject of the Oct. 24 compromise . |
| 25 | It excluded any mention of the virgin birth . |
| 26 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 27 | My one great experience with the medical world had been a wartime wound , a shattered knee and leg , that although it incurred many months in hospital , to a young man of twenty-two , seemed to be totally external . |
| 28 | It was Lennon 's first straight acting role and was coolly received , but it provided another vehicle for promoting his vision of a world free of war and nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 30 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |