Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bishop said the translator had attended very carefully to all the criticisms and it now seemed likely that we would have to wait until at least the end of the summer before the English edition appears . |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted to see how the police train the dogs and it really made my day , ’ she said . |
| 3 | He should have sensed that something was wrong , but he saw the thin trail of smoke above the trees and it hardly registered in his mind . |
| 4 | We landed and changed the plugs but it still ran rough — too rough for the Timor Sea ! |
| 5 | Next it was against the Swedes when it really counted in the European championship . |
| 6 | This is no guesswork ; we know from the records that it often happened like this . |
| 7 | Girls who could n't get themselves a husband in this country were sent out to find one in the colonies and it seldom failed . ’ |
| 8 | Although the merger gave Roh control of 216 of the 299 seats in the National Assembly it provoked widespread resentment on the grounds that it effectively removed the elected opposition . |
| 9 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |