Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unremitting contempt had become unendurable , although it occurred to her for the first time that Luke might actually resent her . |
| 2 | It occurred to her for the first time that there were a couple of curious anomalies in her childhood . |
| 3 | It occurred to her for the first time that there was no sign of a car , apart from her own . |
| 4 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 5 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 6 | It occurred to him for the first time that Celia would be a bad enemy , just as she was a good friend . |
| 7 | It occurred to someone in the library that whoever had stolen the four volumes would certainly be after the fifth to complete his collection , so instead of watching people they watched the surviving book . |
| 8 | It beat about them on the wind as men shook their fists and shouted , faces shining . |
| 9 | Almost always she answered ‘ yes ’ because she had come to prefer lying still , with his soft sleeping body behind her , breathing the night air scented with pine wood and wild thyme as it came to her through the open shutters , and listening to the faraway ululation of the Borzoi dog chained beneath the walls of the Castello Crocetto . |
| 10 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 11 | It came to him in the small hours . |
| 12 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 13 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 14 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 15 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 16 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 17 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 18 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 19 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 20 | It seemed to her like the anus of the entire factory : a black tunnel that extruded the castings , still encased in black sand , like hot , reeking , iron turds , on to a metal grid that vibrated violently and continuously to shake off the sand . |
| 21 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 22 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 23 | In spring , summer and autumn it grinned at them from the greenwood . |
| 24 | My film adaptation of Anthony Delano 's richly comic book slip-Up ’ How Fleet Street caught Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard lost him ’ cost the not unastronomical sum of £600,000 to make , so should it turn out to be money down the drain the BBC will have to face some embarrassing questions about why it embarked on it in the first place if it thought the story might be defamatory . |
| 25 | It dawned on her for the first time that perhaps the other woman had married for money . |
| 26 | He was reading my data as it fed through him into the outlet . |
| 27 | ‘ Our area has been pedestrianised , and while we are convinced that this benefited us in the summer , it worked against us in the winter . |
| 28 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 29 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 30 | It looked like her from the back . |