Example sentences of "it [vb past] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why it got this name I 've no idea , as the so called ‘ bees ’ , looking rather like the cereal Sugar Puffs , were reputed to be an Australian fungus with yeast-like properties . |
| 2 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 3 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 4 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 5 | It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head . |
| 6 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 7 | It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account . |
| 8 | The house was solidly built , however , so it withstood this neglect . |
| 9 | It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at . |
| 10 | But it was the coming night that seemed to press down on Ruth ; there was a strange fear in her that the sun , if it sank this evening , might never rise again . |
| 11 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 12 | It threshed this way and that , as the giant tried , uselessly , to pull free of the Trees ' cruel grip . |
| 13 | This academic study was seen as a means of extending , developing and enriching the student 's mind and , in as much as it fulfilled this function , had much to commend it . |
| 14 | It compared this expectation with the actual unemployment rate . |
| 15 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 16 | It came this morning . |
| 17 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 18 | Creggan nodded , for it seemed this eagle would know the truth of anything he said . |
| 19 | However , as it happened this door was not quite closed . |
| 20 | Er so as it happened this girl had got the material erm a wild silk cream and er Elizabeth made up this dress for her of course er Michael Caine 's daughter i is quite a busty girl , you know |
| 21 | It happened this way : in the early days of the northwest telegraph service , the stations along the line were designated by numbers , and they ended each day 's transmissions with that number . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it happened this way . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ It happened this morning but there was no one to send till I came home from school . ’ |
| 24 | As it happened this period coincided with the arrival in Vancouver of Andrew Allan , later one of Canada 's all time great producers , and he was accompanied by his ‘ unofficial fiancee ’ that talented actress Judith Evelyn . |
| 25 | It confirmed this period , but did not improve on its accuracy . |
| 26 | ‘ It finished this afternoon . |
| 27 | The terms in which it expressed this decision are to be found in a letter dated 23 October 1991 addressed to the plaintiffs ' solicitors and written by Mr. A. D. Farries , a principal in the Crown Prosecutor Fraud Investigation Group . |
| 28 | Not even hearing the rolling crackle above , she was conscious only of the moving light , as the footsteps began again and it swung this way and that , searching something out . |
| 29 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 30 | It began this year when Dad made those wooden cut-out figures , the snowman and the presents . |