Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 3 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 4 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 5 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 6 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 7 | In 1978 , when the factory moved , the union was officially dissolved although it continued to function secretly . |
| 8 | ‘ For my part I believe the African Jesus would have won if it had not been for the Dark Host . |
| 9 | Steve asked reproachfully as if he did n't want to get blamed if it had n't . |
| 10 | sparkling and looked like it had n't been touched , and I could n't believe it . |
| 11 | She was muddy , her dress torn , her hair looked like it had been combed with a hedge , but she crackled with so much internal power that she was nearly throwing off sparks . |
| 12 | ‘ At Doncaster the buffet was closed , the waiting room looked like it had n't been cleaned for three months , the staff locked themselves in a room and every time we heard an engine and dashed out it was pulling coal wagons . ’ |
| 13 | Stan might truly have forgotten if it had not been for the crash of the falling chair . |
| 14 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 15 | Sleep would have come if it had not been for Hugh 's tossing and moaning . |
| 16 | It was shimmering , incandescent , as the colours deepened and the long blue-black tail unfurled and stiffened until it gained the strength to fly . |
| 17 | Speaking to the European Parliament ( EP ) after the summit Ruud Lubbers , Prime Minister of the Netherlands , said that the word federal had been dropped because it meant different things to different people . |
| 18 | The aged had , nevertheless , acquired ‘ a definite status in the community … and the ‘ pauper taint ’ [ was ] removed by a system of personal thrift organized by the state' , a provision for which the Conference congratulated itself , claiming to have succeeded because it had placed national interests over and above political tactics . |
| 19 | It will not be easy but , even if it emerges as a successful project in the early 1990s , it will have succeeded because it suited the market , rather than because it was implemented as national policy . |
| 20 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 21 | This experiment has succeeded because it held out the goal of political as well as economic barriers overcome , of a Europe united . |
| 22 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 23 | Constable when he was giving evidence it only takes a second to fire a gun was n't that the reason that the bed was tipped because it had to be checked quickly that was n't underneath otherwise Constable may might have got shot . |
| 24 | The value of prosection was stressed since it offered three dimensional knowledge to the medical students and post-graduates and many future surgeons would be trained to dissect and explore the body through these preparations . |
| 25 | This is why its share price has nearly quadrupled since it went public in March 1989 . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the OFT said the complaints would be considered before it decided whether to demand assurances concerning the company 's future behaviour . |
| 27 | A VET from Stockton , firemen and an RSPCA inspector were honoured yesterday for rescuing a pony trapped after it slipped down a drain . |
| 28 | FIREFIGHTERS , a vet and an RSPCA inspector were yesterday officially recognised for rescuing a pony trapped after it slipped down a drain . |
| 29 | She heard her name called from below , the sound distorted as it echoed from the depths . |
| 30 | His voice cracked as it rose in pitch . |