Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554 . |
| 2 | And er so you see on the wedding er card it had on er , Mr and Mrs Shaw request the pleasure of Mrs Abbott at their daughter 's wedding . |
| 3 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 4 | A third was made with such force it went through her stomach and up to her heart . |
| 5 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 6 | I did n't like the slow speed it moved at . |
| 7 | With Sarah Chester 's on the brink of insolvency it occurred to me he might be panicking … ’ |
| 8 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 9 | As a result it slipped into a loss of £1.33m in 1988 against a £1.71m taxable profit in 1987 . |
| 10 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |
| 11 | As I took my seat it dawned on me . |
| 12 | That programme it came from . |
| 13 | In 1985 , the British Psychological Society expressed the opposition it saw between women and good theory , when it claimed , as partial grounds for its refusal of a Psychology of Women Section , that the psychology of women ‘ lacks the necessary [ theoretical and methodological ] coherence to be the basis of a scientific Section of the Society ’ ( Newman 1985 : 2 ) , and questioned whether this subdiscipline had the range which a full Section of the Society requires . |
| 14 | With Amantani fresh in my mind it seemed to me that more than the cattle were tethered here . |
| 15 | The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap . |
| 16 | In the gale it sounded like , ‘ Ehh ... oaaah ... aaaack . ’ |
| 17 | No war is really a wanted war , and Vietnam was no exception , it was an unwanted war , but the US felt obliged to enter into it because of the fear it had of Communism . |
| 18 | This is deliberate , an emphatic full close to the story of Athenian growth and the fear it inspired in Sparta . |
| 19 | Here was the Labour Party reverting to its old self , a better self , yes , than the monster it became under the demonic spell of Tony Benn ; here was a party responsive once more to its own people , the people it so shamefully betrayed at two successive general elections since 1979 , but a party — as somebody once said of the SDP - ‘ promising a better yesterday ’ . |
| 20 | Back form Vienna , he ordered a report on Iran from the state Department it concurred with Khrushchev 's assessment . |
| 21 | As she was pouring the tea it occurred to me that maybe she knew Claudia too . |
| 22 | As soon as the group became too large to be controlled by a hyper-active Healy rushing around the country to quell the first signs of dissidence it had to be smashed . |
| 23 | Among other research it led to a series of studies — mostly carried out in the 1950s and 1960s — of the personalities of very creative people . |
| 24 | As she sipped an aperitif it dawned on her that this would be the last social occasion which she and Luke would share , so why not just tread water ? |
| 25 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 26 | Our survey of Japanese finance ( ‘ Downbeat ’ , December 8th ) included a table purporting to show Japanese banks ' BIS capital-adequacy ratios as at September 1990 , attributed to James Capel and from a study it made in October 1990 . |
| 27 | He was talking rather too much , he knew , but her appearance in the dress of silver lame — like some kind of armour remembered from childhood play-acting it looked to his inexperienced eyes — was quite startling and such a contrast to Ianthe 's sober blue wool dress . |
| 28 | From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua . |
| 29 | In practice it led to the ‘ carve-up ’ ( described in more detail in chapter 6 ) , whereby the four big companies ( five , from 1968 ) were guaranteed national access for agreed amounts of their programmes , with the ITA/IBA controlling certain ‘ quality ’ aspects of content and the proportions of programme types ( news , drama , and so on ) . |
| 30 | I had never had him down as a kerb-crawler either , but from the state of the car it looked as if it had had a good kicking . |