Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became such a success that further developments were needed . |
| 2 | Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides , then moving pictures when they came into being . |
| 3 | With 12 players on call from the World Cup compared to the USA 's six , Canada could rely on experience and it made all the difference , especially among the backs where the Eagles paid a heavy price for dropped passes , missed tackles and errant kicks . |
| 4 | For the first time Janine felt that she had an ally , and it made all the difference to her . |
| 5 | In practice , at least in South-East Asia , it made all the difference whether aid was given before or after independence . |
| 6 | On this night the fire-watchers heard the nose-cone come down , it made such a crash , thought it was an incendiary , and spent the rest of the night searching for it , in vain . |
| 7 | The only advantage of being dumped by Clive was that it made this a lot simpler . |
| 8 | The United States filed a brief denying the supposedly exclusive character of the Convention , but urging that principles of comity should be applied to determine whether an order should be made under the Federal Rules when the foreign country had unequivocally stated that it regarded such an order as a violation of its sovereignty ; and argued that a District Court could in any event not order the taking of depositions in Germany without compliance with the procedures prescribed by the German authorities ( in this case , those of the Convention ) . |
| 9 | Michael sniggered behind Moran as soon as they were on the road together but it drew such a quelling look from Maggie that he went quiet . |
| 10 | A route she had been forced to follow , never quite closing the gap , though it narrowed all the time . |
| 11 | It burned all the top of his head and he hung a hot thing over the handle on the door - front door and so he put his hand on the handle and there was piece of skin it was all burned off |
| 12 | It came all the way down there then . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It seemed such a pity your room should be so dark and cold , Mr Stevens , when it 's such bright sunshine outside . |
| 14 | It seemed such a waste to be driving back to England and leaving it all behind . |
| 15 | But it seemed such a peach of a way out of trouble . |
| 16 | ‘ It seemed such a shame to wake you , but I knew you 'd be really cross if you did n't get some studying done . ’ |
| 17 | So I had opened the shutters on what is called complementary medicine with a slightly heavy heart for it seemed such an indictment of our present specialized , technological society when all medicine must simply be ‘ healing . ’ |
| 18 | He said it matter of factly , as if it happened all the time . |
| 19 | If it happened all the time , I would give up the game — I 'd quit . |
| 20 | There was always violence towards officers in Cookham : it happened all the time . |
| 21 | It happened all the time round here . |
| 22 | It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington . |
| 23 | ‘ We stayed in a tent for four days and got very wet because it rained all the time , ’ she says . |
| 24 | The next June , it rained all the time , and I could n't go out very often . |
| 25 | This is a very efficient heat-transfer mechanism , and if it existed all the way into the region of the atmosphere which radiated to space then by today the Jovian interior would have lost almost all of its heat of formation , and any remnant could not be a significant source of internal energy . |
| 26 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 27 | It offered all the excitement of an adventure with ‘ yer mates ’ , the chance to display fanatical loyalty to your club , to prove your hardness and win the admiration of your friends . |
| 28 | It meant such a transformation in his life , a whole new community and way of living . " |
| 29 | He recorded in his diary that he thought it represented such a threat to the good name of politicians that a special regulatory authority should be set up to stop the BBC ever doing anything so wicked again . |
| 30 | It was then I noticed a small cut on his forearm , at least it looked small until it opened up and I realised it went all the way through all the underlying muscles . |