Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [conj] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the sinking of HMS Sheffield , the Ministry of Defence asked MEL ( which makes the Abbey Hill equipment ) to come up with a modification to ensure that it rapidly alerted crews to further Exocet attacks . |
| 2 | Israel did not want the refugees to return because it desperately needed their land and villages to absorb Jewish immigrants . |
| 3 | Flora sat in the kitchen , laboriously practising chain stitch on a rag torn from an old shirt of Peter 's , and Anna , who was in charge of the cleaning-rota , went off to the church to see if it actually had been cleaned . |
| 4 | The only thing is that this text gives no reason to suppose that it also applied in cognitio . |
| 5 | Relics have been housed in the neighbouring priory ruins , including a huge stone chest decorated in high relief with scenes from the biblical tale of David and known as St Andrew 's Sarcophagus , although there is no reason to suppose that it ever served as a coffin . |