Example sentences of "[pron] it was [verb] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is precisely the purpose with which it was framed by its authors in the United Nations . |
| 2 | It fell into intellectual decay during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , from which it was rescued by its famous rector , Miguel de Unamuno . |
| 3 | It is arguable that here Anselm is not thinking of God in terms very different from those of Kant , the severest critic of his ‘ Ontological Argument ’ ( at least in the form in which it was mediated to him by Descartes ) . |
| 4 | A BP oil tanker was blocking the narrow lane down to the Old Forge , towering over the thatched cottage to which it was attached by its pipe-line as though with an umbilical cord . |
| 5 | This process involved the shedding of ‘ the epistemological baggage with which it was freighted at its inception ’ ( Coser writing in 1971 , quoted by House 1977 : 222n ) . |
| 6 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 7 | When asked , she tells me it was given to her ancestress the Duchesse de Guise by Marie Antoinette . |
| 8 | Are you telling me it was presented to you by the Royal Artillery Club ? |
| 9 | Are you telling me it was presented to you |
| 10 | ‘ I asked her , politely , what it was to do with her though , of course , I knew well enough . ’ |
| 11 | Was n't interested in sc Well I mean interest I suppose But I think what it was to start with I I missed the first term , you know after passing for the county , I missed the first term . |
| 12 | I did what it was laid on me to do . |