Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 2 | It was a disgraceful piece of television , in as much as it failed completely to set one point of view against another so that genuine truth could emerge . |
| 3 | But it failed comprehensively to push through various plans for mergers between the assemblers . |
| 4 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 5 | well it got just eased of a little bit and I thought oh well I 'd make it , so I hopped up to get me erm pension erm and I just got down here when it started again and I came around the front from there and I came around the front I was soaking |
| 6 | When it passed there remained in the locket a face which they both looked at speechless . |
| 7 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 8 | Recovery by Mrs Fields : Shares in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 9 | SHARES in Mrs Fields , the troubled US bakery and cookie retailer , rose more than 20 per cent from their 12-month low of 19p to 23p yesterday after it announced much reduced trading losses . |
| 10 | It sought continually to encourage teachers to reevaluate classroom practice — both in curriculum content and methodology . |
| 11 | Instead of banning corporal punishment outright , however , it sought merely to give effect to the Court 's ruling . |
| 12 | It became clear talking with women that many men find it difficult to offer comfort . |
| 13 | Things remained thus for nearly 80 years , and although it became generally recognised that the genus needed to be split-up into several smaller ones , the amount of work required was such as to make the task an almost-impossible proposition , at least for a single revision . |
| 14 | Despite some initial uncertainty as to whether these accounts were correct , it became generally accepted ( e.g. by the US and British governments ) that chemical weapons had indeed been used by Iraq on the scale reported . |
| 15 | After 1898 the latter two of these castes were also excluded , a fact which led to protests from élite Salagamas when it became generally known . |
| 16 | It became widely accepted that the attackers were predominantly black , although there was little evidence for this belief . |
| 17 | However , through the 1950s and early 1960s it became widely accepted by biologists . |
| 18 | It became widely known through the book written against the Jews by Apollonius Molon , one of Cicero 's teachers . |
| 19 | DB32 , as it became colloquially known , was the long awaited planners ' guide , advising on the considerations which should be taken into account in the layout of residential roads and footpaths in new housing schemes , as well as in improvement areas . |
| 20 | Indeed , it became increasingly torn apart by sectarian and ideological division . |
| 21 | One of the main problems for the subject in the inter-war period was that it became increasingly identified as a status quo subject . |
| 22 | The FMS was active in the protest movement which brought down the Lemus regime ( 1956–60 ) but , in common with many other groups , it became progressively disillusioned by the perpetual electoral frauds . |
| 23 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 24 | A couple of days after starting this diet , Jamie 's crying was noticeably less and it became easier to get him to sleep each evening . |
| 25 | First , during the 1920s it became easier to transfer freehold land , as long-standing solicitor resistance to changes in property law broke down ; a series of Property Acts from 1910 to 1925 facilitated the free and rapid transfer of small plots and single dwellings . |
| 26 | Although it became easier to speak freely at home , only Herzen 's periodicals escaped the censor entirely . |
| 27 | A single-track road down to the rocks was closed when it became completely jammed with traffic and an enterprising farmer is now charging visitors £1 each to park in her field . |
| 28 | A whole series of practices and expedients which had been widely used as an organised diplomatic system began to take shape fell into disuse as it became better established . |
| 29 | Accordingly , instead of the war being over in a short time — as was thought by many — it became literally bogged down in trench warfare never previously experienced . |
| 30 | It became explicitly used as part of a campaign against the sexual abuse of children . |