Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arms around her , he began so gently that although McAllister was already feeling stifled , and the fear of men which had beset her for so long had begun to tighten its grip on her , she not only allowed him to kiss and fondle her face and neck , but let him undo her hair , so that it tumbled about her shoulders , as magnificent in its abandon as he had imagined it in the long nights when he had been unable to sleep . |
| 2 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 3 | Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties . |
| 4 | Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties . |
| 5 | That led the court to hold in that judgment that , as a result of article 234 , a member state might have to apply , in its relations with the other member states , rules different from those which it applied in its relations with non-member countries , even though they were all party to the same international convention . |
| 6 | She remembered the way the midwife had bent her knee so that Carolyn 's calf pressed against her thigh , and held it pinned with her own bare arm . |
| 7 | Ordinary people who have been awarded ‘ less important ’ decorations like the British Empire Medal may well find it pinned on their chest not by the Queen but a lord lieutenant in the form of a retired colonel or minor baronet . |
| 8 | Even here , however , status still reared its head , for Louis XIV clearly thought it derogated from his dignity as a ruler by divine right to be referred to in the final treaty in the same terms as William III , the mere constitutional king of a parliamentary state . |
| 9 | ‘ He was n't too bad , but he kept copying the way I said ‘ country ’ in a very meaningful fashion and it got on my nerves . |
| 10 | ‘ All those foreign voices , it got on my nerves . ’ |
| 11 | it got on my wick the bitchiness of it all , did n't you , I could n't , I could n't do with it Joy I do n't think |
| 12 | Well it was long and it was straggly and it got on my nerves ! |
| 13 | He tapped in the code , then waited , knowing the signal was being scrambled through as many as a dozen sub-routes before it got to its destination . |
| 14 | But when it got to my last week I just thought stuff it , I 'm going to give it my best shot . |
| 15 | I represent the principle of authority and am bound to make it respected in my person : such has always been the conscious object of my relations with the working class . ’ |
| 16 | Following his death , it passed to his son . |
| 17 | Twenty one years later it passed to his son-in-law , Mark Rainsford I , whose beers and fine ales were brewed here in turn by his son Mark Rainsford II . |
| 18 | When pulled tight it effectively secured her to the bench , and as it passed behind her knees , so her legs were strapped in the position where her feet were above her head . |
| 19 | The newt clutched desperately at the cotton smock where it covered the great chest and there it clung with its little claw-like feet . |
| 20 | The tears were moistening her hair so that it clung to her cheeks , and they did n't look like stopping . |
| 21 | As she returned kiss for kiss , sure of nothing but her need for him , she felt his hand free her hair where it clung to her hot damp skin , then glide lightly down . |
| 22 | Knee-length , it clung to her figure lovingly . |
| 23 | It pandered to their inflated notion of their own importance ; and the restiveness of the working class during this early phase of Russian industrialization gave them renewed hope that they had at last found a willing instrument for their revolutionary dreams . |
| 24 | It asked for their support in getting the law changed , and the guidelines strengthened by law . |
| 25 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 26 | Lord Home , the last Etonian prime minister , disliked politics because it interfered with his sport . |
| 27 | He would run the United States like a business , with little regard for the Constitution if it interfered with his plans , declare martial law to combat the drug problem , eliminate Social Security or the entire defence budget if it was thought necessary to meet the government 's deficit , and remove the power of Congress to raise taxes . |
| 28 | Even Elena 's advice could be unwelcome when it interfered with his contemplation of the project . |
| 29 | So far from killing himself over Wolfgang , he would not have hesitated to end the liaison if it interfered with his plans . ’ |
| 30 | It interfered with your peace of mind . |