Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Whilst these proposals were still before the King , the army marched on London and expelled the leading Presbyterians from the House of Commons so that it came under the control of the Independents .
2 The second is to increase the establishment of HMI so that it employs thousands of people , but I do not believe that a centralised civil service approach is desirable .
3 General Sherman … has raised up an army on the four sides of Joseph just when it seemed most probable that he was about to escape …
4 Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born .
5 Fraser J. had the advantage of the citation of Watt v. Rama even though it had not then been reported .
6 The Panama Canal Commission said in Washington yesterday that it planned to reopen the waterway for daylight transit today .
7 It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time .
8 The United States has said it will guarantee ten billion dollars in loans to Israel only if it stops building settlements in the occupied territories .
9 Swissair cancelled two flights to America yesterday because it found a damaged engine-mount bolt .
10 Then we talked to Miguel again and it turned out the Indian had started this long conversation with him before we could possibly have had the accident .
11 Observing that Tschudi can be shown to have made keyboards with ‘ skunktail ’ sharps ( quite exceptionally on the 1766 instruments for Frederick the Great ) , Dale rashly conjectures that the instrument seen in the Mercier portrait might be by Tschudi even though it bears no resemblance to the 1729 harpsichord or anything that subsequently emerged from the Meard Street or Great Pultney Street workshops .
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