Example sentences of "it [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 2 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 3 | It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video . |
| 4 | In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law . |
| 5 | When the buyer-notify party paid the amount owed to the issuing bank , it received the latter 's authority to claim the goods from the carrier . |
| 6 | The republics failed , however , to reach agreement on a council for railway transport ( Ukraine objecting on the grounds that it resembled the former USSR Railway Ministry ) , and also on the organization of economic links . |
| 7 | Here it played the same role . |
| 8 | It noted the many differences in historical experience , in values and in interests . |
| 9 | It seemed the least Harry could promise . |
| 10 | It Germanised the few Polish street , town and place names , undertook propagandist ‘ research work ’ on historical subjects , supervised the Germanising of family names among those Poles who decided to take the plunge into German identity , took down Polish-language warning notices about venereal diseases from public toilets and instituted a system of bonuses for all teachers and civil servants prepared to move and settle in the eastern provinces . |
| 11 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 12 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
| 13 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 14 | It repeated the same three-note phrase over and over , and Montaine caught the little tune and sang it back . ’ |
| 15 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 16 | It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff . |
| 17 | Unable to meet his eyes , she stared at the garden , wondering vaguely why it looked the same when she felt so very different . |
| 18 | It sent the same strongly worded Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , ‘ the Minister [ sic ] of War ’ , and ‘ the Chief [ sic ] Commissioner of Her Majesty 's Works and Buildings ’ . |
| 19 | The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ; |
| 20 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 21 | Not so blatant now , but it meant the same . |
| 22 | It did the same again in January 1985 ; when the pound fell to $1.12 banks were instructed to raise interest rates by 1.5 per cent . |
| 23 | It did the same as you did . |
| 24 | She could have told him it did the same for him , but she did n't . |
| 25 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 26 | Originally it gave the same reading as the theatre score ; Purcell made the alteration in order to bring it into line with the printed version . |
| 27 | It sounded the same as the English siren except that it was slower . |
| 28 | Yes I suppose it sounded the same to me . |
| 29 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 30 | But whatever it was , it had the same effect . |