Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remarked that it resembled a gigantic roll of lavatory paper ; my guide confirmed that this was exactly what it was . |
| 2 | Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door . |
| 3 | I thought that it undermined the satisfaction of ‘ getting a place in college ’ for students with severe learning difficulties . |
| 4 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 5 | Meh'Lindi reached into the trunk and lifted out a small tentacle , which squirmed as it left the stasis-field . |
| 6 | And nobody noticed that it said A colon and not C colon . |
| 7 | The proposed quota and duty system was strongly criticized by the Latin American producer countries , which claimed that it violated the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 8 | The treaty was denounced by Israel , which claimed that it marked the virtual annexation of Lebanon by Syria . |
| 9 | The decision to dismiss Yakovlev caused strong criticism in the liberal press , which warned that it showed an increasing reluctance to brook opposition on the part of the Russian leadership and could be interpreted as a sacrifice to conservative forces prior to the forthcoming Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 10 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 11 | On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben . |
| 12 | Whether she realized that the French alliance of 1548 was exceedingly fragile , entered into faute de mieux , or whether she assumed that it had a solidity which almost three centuries might have been expected to give it , is not clear . |
| 13 | Darman 's claim that this would save $47,000 million on social spending over the next five years drew a sceptical response from opposition Democrats , who feared that it masked a real intent to cut back on social programmes . |
| 14 | So um it 's much I suppose it makes the world a slightly safer place if you can say it was to do with something that you did because it brings the world slightly back under your control , maybe . |
| 15 | You said that it takes a long time for development between the first idea being mooted and a workable application of the particular physical principle , and you cited , what , fifty years for the development of a nuclear power station — is there always that time lag in technology ? |
| 16 | This makes the special position of the maternal uncle seem even more anomalous , and led Junod to suppose that we could only understand this peculiar relationship if we assumed that it represented an anachronistic throwback or ‘ survival ’ of an earlier matriarchal stage . |
| 17 | We hid but it made no difference , they still found us . |
| 18 | The aggressive marketing of seats to foreign cosmonauts on short duration Soyuz flights to the Mir space station in order to recoup some of the costs [ see pp. 37437 ; 37932 ; 38219 ] was also unpopular among many officials involved in the space programme ; they felt that it devalued the space programme at a time when the Zenit and Energia super boosters remained grounded with technical problems [ see p. 37797 ] and the first manned mission of the Soviet Buran shuttle had been postponed , at least to 1993 . |
| 19 | It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company . |
| 20 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 21 | ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock . |
| 22 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 23 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 24 | It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " . |
| 25 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 26 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 27 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 28 | It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person |
| 29 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 30 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |