Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 2 | Sixth sense for smack ; would n't know a Poussin if it moved in next door and fucked his daughter . |
| 3 | His love affair was with laughter , and it came in Black Comedy when his character , sculptor Brindsley Miller , was improving the look of his shabby flat by ‘ borrowing ’ priceless porcelain and antique furniture from his friend next door to impress his fiancee 's snooty father , who is visiting on the same evening that the supposed richest man in the world is arriving to inspect his sculpture . |
| 4 | All chemical reactions were in a sense an expression of this principle ; and if it seemed in some case that the weights of the reactants and the products were unequal , then the chemist must have missed something . |
| 5 | The Royal Commission on Capital Punishment which reported in 1953 ( Cmnd. 5932 ) examined the experience of countries throughout the world where the death penalty has been abolished , restored , abolished again or where it existed in some parts and not in others . |
| 6 | Presumably it evolved in these rivers and their tributaries . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. and learned Friend agree that those dramatic figures are eloquent testimony to the fact that under Labour the number of days lost was so dramatic that it resulted in near anarchy and that , as a result of our legislation , there are now proper secret ballots and democracy in the workplace ? |
| 8 | It need not , however , have had the significance it acquired in tenth-century documents when it did come to express claims to a kingship of all Anglo-Saxons . |
| 9 | There were explicit reminiscences of the Punjab , and all it meant in imperial song and story , in the minds of Northern Nigeria 's creators as they were creating . |
| 10 | It emerged in late August that he had privately left the UK for a secret destination in Europe . |
| 11 | This is reputed to be the funniest burlesque of music-hall there has been , and , with its stage within a stage , it ran in one form or another for thirty years . |
| 12 | When the war was over , an overhead inspection tower was fitted to its roof , and it continued in this role until superseded by car 31 ( 754 ) in 1934 . |
| 13 | Built to house the personal treasure of Edward III , it continued in this role until the death of Henry VIII . |