Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [noun] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It overheated when workers left the plant for the weekend without adding water to cool the reaction . |
| 2 | None of it spilled as Bonanza removed the cigar from his soft lips . |
| 3 | It seemed that Cathy had a lot to lose through her uncle 's death . |
| 4 | I could n't see it too clearly 'cos it was at the other end of the pitch , but it seemed that Jamie had the ball around the right hand edge of the box and curled it into the top left hand corner . |
| 5 | It happened because Henry had no options left . |
| 6 | It acknowledged that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of , for example , the tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other states . |
| 7 | It rained on days when they needed sun and it blazed when Nichols wanted a rain sequence . |
| 8 | In the twentieth century , it meant that women got a zilch hand-out in life and the arts . |
| 9 | With his death it emerged that Cody had a legal wife , Maud Maria , daughter of Joseph Lee , in an American asylum . |
| 10 | It emerged that Gooch had a string of motoring offences . |
| 11 | At the trial before Lord Tenterden C.J. it appeared that Godefroy brought an action against one Dalton , and caused Collins to be subpoenaed to attend . |
| 12 | It said that states had the sovereign right to exploit their own resources ( by implication , therefore , ruling out coercive action to halt the destruction of tropical forests ) , but added the rider that they should not do so in a manner which caused damage to the environment of other countries . |
| 13 | Then in typical fashion the sun came out and dried the heather till it crackled and Scotland recorded the highest temperature in the British Isles . |
| 14 | It concluded that Guatemala had the lowest ‘ physical quality of life index in Central America and the third lowest in the whole of Latin America after Haiti and Bolivia ’ . |
| 15 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |