Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that ‘ civilised ’ society realised that science creates problems as well as solving them , it gladly turned to space-gods and their companions . |
| 2 | On the other hand the BDDA scored a triumph , which it circulated " to every mission and school for the deaf and dumb in the United Kingdom " , when it successfully campaigned for the nondiscriminatory insurance of deaf and dumb people in employment under the Workmen 's Compensation , Unemployment and Invalidity Acts which the Lloyd George Government passed early in the twentieth century . |
| 3 | In response to the proposed new guidelines the FMLN , which had demobilized the first 20 per cent of its forces in June [ see p. 38957 ] and a further 20 per cent on Sept. 21 , agreed to disband the next 20 per cent on Oct. 31 ( on which date it duly proceeded with the disarming of some 1,000 guerrillas ) , a further 20 per cent on Nov. 20 and the final 20 per cent on Dec. 15 . |
| 4 | It duly appeared on the front cover of Music Week the following week : BRANSON BOMBSHELL : VIRGIN CHIEF SEEKS £2OM CITY BACKING TO PUT CABLE MUSIC INTO MILLIONS OF HOMES . |
| 5 | Having emerged from this complex background , the book evinced an eccentric fidelity to Ritschl 's advice , when it duly appeared after the suggested " couple of years " . |
| 6 | A goal had to come , and it duly arrived in a moment of magic after 33 minutes . |
| 7 | It rather appeared to be a slight but inconsistent preference for mucosal IgG1 production also in Crohn 's disease . |
| 8 | Whereas in Northumberland it rarely lasted for a whole day and almost never appeared on consecutive days , in London and Surrey it seemed to shine uninterrupted for weeks at a time . |
| 9 | It rarely featured in the financial press , and did not appear to have much of a voice on driving matters — unusual for a company in its position . |
| 10 | In fact it rarely met in the 1920s . |
| 11 | Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross . |
| 12 | Panic began to grip Mildred as it slowly dawned on her that not only Tabby , but also the bedstead , all the furniture and even the bats sleeping round the picture rail were many times larger than usual . |
| 13 | His feet continued to pattern Ab-u-dah Ab-u-dah on the pavement as it slowly curved towards a junction with a similar , possibly even shabbier street , a terrace without any trees . |
| 14 | Instead it slowly froze in a magma chamber into a mush of coarse crystals . |
| 15 | It slowly rose into his throat . |
| 16 | Another supplier was South Africa whose huge Armscor factory in Johannesburg had supplied Iran with all the 120-mm guns that it fruitlessly fired across the desert in this never-ending conflict , and much else besides . |
| 17 | It presumably developed as an extramural market place . |
| 18 | Fearon looked temporarily nonplussed , then shrugged , tossed the towel back into the bathroom behind him where it presumably landed on the floor and growled , ‘ All right , I 'll show you around . |
| 19 | We had notice of Sarah 's barrenness even before it properly got under way ( 11.30 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ We want to see it properly regulated with guidelines for doctors . ’ |
| 21 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 22 | It eventually collided with a tree on the Lakes Estate in Milton Keynes after a high speed police chase over two miles . |
| 23 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 24 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 25 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 26 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 27 | ‘ It eventually culminated in a murderous attack , the eventual brutality of which surprised even you . |
| 28 | Originally started for the Lobkovic family in 1545 by Agostino Galli , it eventually came into the hands of the Schwarzenberg family . |
| 29 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 30 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |