Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head . |
| 2 | It reopened several days later , however , and no further desalination plants came under direct threat during February . |
| 3 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 4 | In May , 1977 , it moved another step higher . |
| 5 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 6 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 7 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 8 | When the place was up and running , with guests in all the woodland chalets and the cafeteria open until late , it would feel safe at any hour ; and now that he was no longer alone here , it seemed that way now . |
| 9 | Strangely , it seemed less dark out on the water than on land . |
| 10 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 11 | It seems unlikely that the dance was copied into the score at the wrong point : if it had been , one would expect to find it headed by some warning that it belonged several pages later — otherwise severe complications would result in orchestral parts copied from the score . |
| 12 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 13 | In the process , it discovered such homes often provided better care for seriously mentally frail elderly people than local authority accommodation . |
| 14 | It began this year when Dad made those wooden cut-out figures , the snowman and the presents . |
| 15 | It taught many others how classical style could be adapted and developed . |
| 16 | It was meant to be intimidating , and it served that purpose well . |
| 17 | He argued that since crime , as officially recorded , was greatest amongst the working class , it followed that anomie too must be greatest in that social stratum . |
| 18 | Announcing its decision , the Department of Environment said it had responded to three main criticisms : i ) the register would have listed all potential , not necessarily actual , contaminated sites , since it included all locations where specified industries had been sited ; ii ) sites would not be removed from the register , even if after clean-up ; iii ) there was no specific provision for determining who should bear the liability , and the costs , of the clean-up . |
| 19 | If the air needed clearing , then our first conversation did exactly that , for it saw each man strongly protesting his innocence and strenuously denying any involvement in the murder . |
| 20 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 21 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 22 | It took many months more for me to feel safe enough to talk to him about The Fat Controller , but there came a time , when the memory of our last vertiginous encounter had dimmed , that I became prepared to risk it . |
| 23 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 24 | These figures are hardly surprising — it took most respondents up to six weeks to find a replacement . |
| 25 | It took another step down . |
| 26 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 27 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 28 | The Exchequer 's secondary function was the payment of the King 's debts ; provided that the King had some money for discharging them , it performed this task efficiently but slowly . |
| 29 | It saved some bacon here and was a morale booster there — after all , it could have bee a lot worse . |
| 30 | But it had another trick up its sleeves . |