Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It failed really to come to grips with the contribution which voluntary organisations could make to a pattern of services . |
| 2 | Traditionally looked upon as the capital of the former Visigothic kingdom of Aquitaine it seemed therefore to belong to Aquitaine . |
| 3 | Dulled since meeting Terry Rourke , it had inconveniently come to life again , and was telling her things about life — and Havvie — which she did not wish to know . |
| 4 | In tropical oceans , there is also the problem of the teredo worm , one of the lamellibranch family of boring molluscs , whose destructive vigour proved as deadly to submarine cables as it had previously done to ships ' timbers , wharves and sea dykes . |
| 5 | The dispute was only resolved in July 1986 when Senor Perez de Cuellar , Secretary General of the United Nations , arranged a package deal whereby France paid the New Zealand government £4.5 million in addition to what it had privately paid to Pereira 's family and the £5 million it also had to pay Greenpeace in October 1987 . |
| 6 | It had also fallen to Montaine to take her brother food when he was confined to the cave , warn him of danger when it was acute , and when the coast was clear to fetch him home . |
| 7 | But hardly had General von Gallwitz arrived at Verdun before he was forcibly impressed by the potency of the French artillery ; it had just blown to pieces one of his divisional commanders in his car . |
| 8 | Smoke was now pouring thickly from the doorway and it had just occurred to Rocky that no enemy personnel had as yet put in an appearance , when Larsen came stumbling out , eyes streaming , one arm hugging his daughter protectively , shotgun dangling from his free hand . |
| 9 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 10 | It had never occurred to Joni that on the cross Jesus was unable to move , virtually paralysed . |
| 11 | It had never occurred to Howarth that the six senior staff sitting awkwardly around his table in the candlelight , unmellowed even by the wine , would see the whole occasion as an elaborate gastronomic charade designed to demonstrate his social and intellectual superiority . |
| 12 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 13 | He told her he and Mallachy had got involved ‘ through Mallachy 's big mouth ’ in a late-club row up the Malone Road where some students had been blowing off their mouths over politics and religion , and it had almost come to blows . |
| 14 | The fine for such an offence when this rule had been applied to the original directors of the House of Industry in 1794 was £20 it had now risen to £100 . |
| 15 | There was this girl in a bath of asses milk , yuk ! and it had all turned to cheese , so they put her on the table with a dish of figs for afters . |