Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goal was doubly harmful for the way it temporarily drained confidence from a Scotland team who had started the game far from traumatised by the size of the task that confronted them . |
| 2 | He repeated once more , for Theo 's benefit , his fateful words on that summer day : ‘ Kee , I love you as myself … ’ and her reply , ‘ No , never never ’ , which fell on him like a death sentence , ‘ and for the moment it absolutely crushed me to the ground ’ . |
| 3 | It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history . |
| 4 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 5 | The marbles are still rich and some of the mosaics are visible , but in general the colour is disappointingly dark and dull , showing little of the brilliance it once had . |
| 6 | The energy required to remove the electron depends only on the energy of the level it originally occupied relative to that of an unbound electron , so photoelectron spectra are in principle much simpler than electronic excitation spectra . |
| 7 | This was a fraction of the damage it eventually suffered from the acquisition it made instead , Crocker National . |
| 8 | In front of the stove it soon came back to life , and then he could return it to its mother . |
| 9 | Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against social and institutional obstacles which prevented or inhibited it , and in so doing also stood in the way of the other great task which capitalist — or indeed any — industrial development set its landed sector . |
| 10 | The notion of pastiche is now a guiding thread in critical discourse , to the extent that Palandri 's novel can be put forward as ‘ a disturbing attempt to write a kitsch novel ’ ( De Michelis 1986a ) , and the argument be made — — referring to Piersanti 's Charles — that no novelist born in the 1950s can return to ‘ traditional narrative ’ without being aware that he/she is ‘ holding an old toy which might look fine in an antique shop , or might be an ornament or a collector 's item , but is no good for playing with any more ’ ; if they do use it ( but why should they if it is no use any more ? ) , it is with a mixture of pleasure and melancholy , ‘ like someone repeating a game which once gave pleasure for years and years and now gives none , only the memory of the joy it once gave ’ ( De Michelis 1986b ) . |
| 11 | So AT&T is trying to oust Mr Exley and his board , which includes some of the people it once hoped would run its own computer business . |
| 12 | Part of the time it just hung there in the water , not even the tip of a fin moving . |
| 13 | Despite the controversy it often provoked , military intervention in labor conflicts was common from 1875 to 1925 . |
| 14 | Like the Rhine it also marked a boundary for the Romans ; beyond it — unknowable nomads ! |
| 15 | The UK has flouted the EC 's Directive and disagreed with the standards it originally agreed to . |
| 16 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 17 | It was borne upon us pretty quickly that the interested watchers were wearing air force blue , and that from the distance it probably looked to them as if we were all stark naked . |
| 18 | The great sides always capitalise on moments of good fortune and when Marty Roebuck made a hash of a simple penalty four minutes from the break it somehow ended up as a try . |
| 19 | The police do n't yet know how many people are affected … but neighbouring businesses say the office was busy until the moment it suddenly closed down . |
| 20 | France expressed horror at the assassination and appealed for unity to assure peace in the country it once ruled . |
| 21 | When we met in the lounge it rapidly became clear that he was not in his usual good humour . |
| 22 | In the DOE it also tended to overburden top management , producing large amounts of detailed information about costs whilst ignoring both wider policy judgements ( which perhaps offer greater scope for savings ) and day-to-day political issues ( which usually preoccupy top civil servants and ministers ) . |
| 23 | In most respects it was human in shape , but gigantic in stature , and there seemed nothing of the human being in the way it suddenly paced forward from the trees . |
| 24 | because I said it was erm Simon 's , and then I did n't know really where they lived and erm , I know they moved out , out of next door to Lesley 's , and in the end it never got done that , that more to the point but erm I ca n't do that up until I 've done that can I ? |
| 25 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 26 | ‘ When I first saw the head in the font it just looked familiar — I could n't sort out why . |
| 27 | It is notable , however , that although titled nobles were very prominent in the highest ranks in the college it still had to make extensive use of commoners , since even in the 1750s it was impossible to find enough dvoryane ( members of the privileged landowning class ) with an adequate knowledge of foreign languages . |
| 28 | When they staled in the yards it quickly froze . |
| 29 | Italy accepted that there would be economic disadvantages , though in the negotiations it successfully managed to gain some important concessions for its own steel industry : but the economic worries took a clear secondary position to the political factors which were the major motives for Italy 's participation . |
| 30 | An article on the Caledonian Press , in the magazine it later published , attributed the initiative of the whole enterprise to her : " To whatever credit this may entitle her , Miss Mary Anne Thomson may justly lay claim . " |