Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [subord] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sinatra also held the rights to the movie and withdrew it from the public domain shortly after release because it closely shadowed the Kennedy assassination . |
| 2 | Law firm Healy & Baillie has accused the agency , which is an offshoot of Lloyd 's of London insurance market , of negligence after it allegedly inspected the passenger ship Scandinavian Star and approved its safety shortly before its tragic voyage . |
| 3 | RAI protests that this amounts to a colossal waste of money since it previously acquired Eurovision rights for nothing more than the duty of reciprocal access to material from Italy . |
| 4 | The area was once covered by a glacier hundreds of feet deep , carving valleys out of rock as it slowly ground its way towards the distant Tasman Sea . |
| 5 | De Lubac , von Balthasar , Bouyer and Jacques Maritain could cry ‘ treason ’ , but Marxism , structuralism and post-structuralism collectively devastated the French School of Theology until it almost ceased significantly to exist . |
| 6 | Moreover since he did not wish to have preying on his mind any malice or grudge by reason of which his father might later be offended , he revealed that he had pledged himself to support the barons of Aquitaine against his brother Richard and said that he had done this because Richard had fortified the castle of Clairvaux though it really belonged to the Angevin patrimony which he should inherit from his father . " |
| 7 | The introduction of compulsory elementary education after 1870 may have prompted a re-evaluation of the cost of children because it seriously diminished the contribution the child could make to the family economy . |
| 8 | Despite his casual dress of jeans and shirt , there was still an air of sophistication about him that was in sharp variance to those around him , and she cursed Donal again for his stupid sense of humour because it now put her in the most ridiculous position . |
| 9 | His little show would n't stand much chance of survival if it even hinted at a bad ‘ season ’ to come . |
| 10 | Such courageous integrity can look like arrogance since it apparently rejected the means to an understanding of the faith acquired by the tested traditions of academic and spiritual disciplines or social mores . |
| 11 | The fuel situation in western Romania was desperate because a lot was being smuggled into Yugoslavia before it even got to the petrol stations . |
| 12 | The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act . |
| 13 | knew it was her birthday on Halloween cos it always stuck in my mind |
| 14 | The plane was flying the Travolta family from Florida to Maine when it suddenly lost all its electrical instruments . |
| 15 | The failure of Krushchev 's confrontation tactics ( on 11 November 1959 he threatened to negotiate a separate peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic if the Western powers did not withdraw their troops within six months ) had forced him to moderate his stance , and it was apparent that the Soviet Union would minimise the chances of an agreement on Berlin if it simultaneously pressed hard everywhere else , thereby exacerbating Washington 's fears that any concession would be interpreted by Khrushchev as a sign of weakness . |
| 16 | In spite of all the worrying about it the next stage with Edward still took Sally by surprise when it actually happened . |