Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun] and it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We had looked at the agent in March and it seemed OK , ’ spokesman John Garner says .
2 It developed into the small , but well-endowed parish of St. John the Baptist in Bedford and it escaped the destruction and confiscation of property that was the lot of monasteries and most hospitals during the Reformation .
3 I had once had to witness Otto tackling a bundle in Paris and it left a lasting impression : of an elephant stripping bark .
4 Sarah had been surprised at Mrs Fitzgerald 's calmness but Anne told her that her mother and Maureen spent every possible moment in church and it seemed to comfort them .
5 The programme had been linked to student unrest in June and it had indeed become a focus of attention among young intellectuals on the campuses .
6 They had looked to be a one-pace crew in practice and it seemed as though they had no answer to Oxford 's attack .
7 [ Drafted in 1986 , this was the first systematic revision of the terms of the post-war international settlement in Yugoslavia and it opened the way to the Great Serbian expansion which began in 1987 . ]
8 Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January .
9 ‘ Space Oddity ’ was written as a two-part song , and I recall he played this song in my tiny little kitchen in Beckenham and it sounded absolutely wonderful to me . ’
10 I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle .
11 This building was the first great Byzantine church in Russia and it set the pattern for innumerable smaller churches .
12 He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School .
13 Free to roam , there was a free market in morality and it did n't matter what choice was made , everything continued to end happily .
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