Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] it [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers . |
| 2 | He was the first high-ranking UN official to visit Taiwan since it withdrew from the UN in 1971 . |
| 3 | The Cavalier was being followed through Milton Keynes when it turned into the cul-de-sac and hit the wall at about 50 miles an hour . |
| 4 | An episode of the new series was banned in England because it referred to the ‘ victory of the IRA over the English in the 21st century ’ |
| 5 | Ramsay and Fraser reckoned that perhaps one-third might desert Dunbar when it came to the crunch . |
| 6 | Beveridge thought a small part of the new scheme 's income should go to the NHS as it had under the old . |
| 7 | The alternative option , clearly the one it favoured , was ‘ to accept Israel as it existed on the condition that each refugee be allowed to return to his home , whether it was under Arab or Israeli jurisdiction . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 10 | Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction . |
| 11 | We scrambled over the chockstone of the Eye onto the plateau and wandered over shimmering snowfields to drink from the icy waters of the Garbh Uisge where it emerged from a shadowy blue tunnel before tumbling from the plateau . |
| 12 | Underground flooding was threatening to undermine Moscow , while inadequate storage of radioactive waste could lead to a catastrophe exceeding the scale of Chernobyl if it leaked into the Caspian Sea . |
| 13 | A complete split was also threatened when the North branch voted to withdraw from the BSP if it affiliated to the Labour Party ( ibid. 4 August 14 ) . |
| 14 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 15 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 16 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 17 | Many aspects of the diplomatic organisation of western and central Europe as it existed by the beginning of the seventeenth century continued with little essential change down to the French Revolution and indeed beyond . |
| 18 | All of them tended to assume that the territorial division of Europe as it stood at the moment of their publication was , or could be made , permanent and sacrosanct . |
| 19 | The car , a 1986 Chaika that owed its style as much to the 1958 Cadillac Eldorado as it did to the people 's revolution , sped along a country road . |
| 20 | Kermit and his staff had been watching Hurricane Andrew as it tore through the Bahamas . |
| 21 | they were chased through the town in Torquay until it ran off the pier and drowned in the sea . |
| 22 | A portrait of Elena Ceauşescu graced the Polytechnic 's building in Central London until it disappeared during the Christmas vacation at the end of 1989 . |
| 23 | They found that £15 or £20 a week went as far in an erstwhile fishing village on Spain 's Costa Brava as it did at an English seaside hotel or holiday camp , with cheap wine and reliable sunshine thrown in . |
| 24 | They were strapped into car seats in their parents Metro when it crashed into a Pontiac near Burford after heavy rain last September . |
| 25 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 26 | Five-month-old Charles Goodchild , from Nanpean , near St Austell , was in the front of the family 's Ford Sierra when it crashed with a lorry near Liskeard , Cornwall . |
| 27 | Amazingly this must have been the final straw for it , because its top hinge broke and it swivelled on the bottom one , narrowly missing Miss Louise before it crashed to the floor . |
| 28 | Alan Stewart , who 'd been arrested by police six months ago and questioned about allegations of indecency , was on the staff of New Barns School at Toddington in Gloucestershire when it closed in the autumn . |
| 29 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |