Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And that one ‘ undred was only because the grahnd sloped like the north face of Iverest of ‘ e ‘ ad only to tap the ball and it got up faster speed than any fielder . ’ |
| 2 | This time warm air came from the south , hotting up as it passed over warm land . |
| 3 | And one his suggestion was approved and tried , it wiped out all incidents of damage and robbery . |
| 4 | And when racism exploded in the eighteenth century — to justify slavery — it wiped out any acknowledgement of African achievements . |
| 5 | The decree also declared that the union and republican governments should investigate ways of transforming inefficient collective and state farms into private or co-operative farms , although it ruled out compulsory dissolution . |
| 6 | Although the mainstream group , Fatah , made clear that it ruled out any question of subverting the Hashemite regime , other groups , of which the PFLP was the most notable , made equally clear their view that the overthrow of the Hashemites was a necessary preliminary to the recovery of Palestine . |
| 7 | it conked out other day |
| 8 | The well-remembered texture of it triggered off vivid flashes of memory , so that past and present blurred together , confusing her still further . |
| 9 | Isobel stepped out into the corridor , quiet except for the ever-present low murmur of the station 's output as it played over unobtrusive speakers . |
| 10 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 11 | but it could n't of been cos it came out last week |
| 12 | It has been standing in water all day , and it has been well scraped before it came out this evening . |
| 13 | Despite its low calibre , the weapon was hard to control firing on-full automatic , as it threw out 1,500 rounds per minute . |
| 14 | The development was the ‘ most exciting discovery of the last decade ’ because it opened up new treatment avenues . |
| 15 | It opened up orchestrational possibilities for a small group that did n't exist before . |
| 16 | Although the case collapsed and Docherty admitted telling ‘ a pack of lies ’ in court , it opened up damaging wounds within Manchester United , and created a climate of fear and loathing among leading players that stretches to the present day . |
| 17 | He says he would never have been able to have afforded it himself , so it opened up another world . |
| 18 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 19 | Today , I 'm sorry it turned out that way . |
| 20 | It turned out that radio astronomy of this kind looked at extremely low temperature regions . |
| 21 | It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space . |
| 22 | For it turned out that Pound 's poetry — The Cantos certainly but much of the earlier work also — could be understood and enjoyed only by those who had attended to Pound s criticism enough to grasp what it was that Pound was trying to do , or conceived himself to be doing , in his poetry . |
| 23 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |
| 24 | It hung off all sides of his hand like a lump of uncooked dough . |
| 25 | I keep it locked up these days . ’ |
| 26 | The Viennese piano is often discussed as if it developed along one path , as if each improvement followed the previous one in an orderly fashion . |
| 27 | It followed up this insight with a basic marketing principle : that your best prospects are your previous customers . |
| 28 | The iceberg was 155 km long until it broke up last year . |
| 29 | He had taken his jacket off ; it trailed over one shoulder , held in the hook of one finger . |
| 30 | Just 19 months later it achieved the dubious distinction of being the only Royal Commission to be wound up without producing a report when it collapsed over internal differences as to the scope of its report and how it should proceed . |