Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also resulted in the interest in the potential of the Macintosh extending beyond the production area to design and editorial staff where it developed into passionate enthusiasm . |
| 2 | ‘ They left his body lying where it fell for three days , as a warning to the other prisoners . |
| 3 | Typhoid and paratyphoid death rate fell similarly , although there were great contrasts between , for example , England , where it fell from 15.5 in 1901 to 0.4 in 1941 , and Spain , whose rate dropped only from 51.3 to 16.1 in the same period . |
| 4 | The oversize was broken , or ragged , where it fell by older or stronger boys or women , using heavy sledgehammers , for which task they were paid 1½ pence per barrow load . |
| 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 | However , this was not the main argument used by the Government during the debate on the Bill in Parliament , where it met with determined opposition . |
| 7 | It stands today in Newhall Street , where it settled in 1977 . |
| 8 | Car 127 was a similar snow plough , based at Fleetwood depot , where it survived until 1960 , when it was restored for the 75th Anniversary and re-numbered 2 , its Company number . |
| 9 | By 1976 this had fallen to 16 per cent where it remained without significant change up to 1986 . |
| 10 | He left the cardboard box on top of his wardrobe , where it remained until 1973 , when he cleared away every trace of himself from 29 Champney Road . |
| 11 | Two of the sons of that marriage also became doctors , Thomas and Charles , and it was under their supervision that the asylum was moved from Manor Farm House to Chiswick House in 1893 , where it remained until 1929 . |
| 12 | Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815 all Dalmatia , including Dubrovnik , was placed under Austrian administration , where it remained until 1918 . |
| 13 | since November 1990 and that the highest rise was in Waltham Forest — is his own constituency , I believe — where it rose by 6.5 per cent. ? |
| 14 | It was a sort of like a I do n't know what i whether it was erm some sort of a private or it belonged to this Manchester Co-op or something I think it was . |
| 15 | Though the six counties initially refused an offer of separation from the rest of Ireland , that was the compromise eventually agreed on , although it led to civil war in the new Irish Free State , and remains the root cause of later violence . |
| 16 | The supposed inferiority of women to men , although it existed in developing countries before colonialism , was reinforced by Victorian colonists and through Christianity . |
| 17 | Figure 5.3 shows support for the Equal Rights Amendment ( ERA ) to the United States Constitution , proposed in 1972 but never ratified because although it passed through both houses of Congress it did not receive the positive vote of three-quarters of the State Legislatures within seven years , as required by the Constitution . |
| 18 | This particular group structure was not examined under the old syllabus in the written test section of the PE1 Financial Accounting 1 paper , although it featured in various objective test questions . |
| 19 | Although it began in southern Spain , his movement quickly spread west and north , eventually establishing its most tenacious roots in Galicia , which was to become its heartland . |
| 20 | Moreover , under 1020 the death of Archbishop Lyfing is given first , although it occurred on 12 June , after Cnut 's return to England and the Easter meeting at Cirencester . |
| 21 | The agreement endorsed the principle of " self-sufficiency " , which stipulated that waste should be treated or disposed of as close as possible to the point of production , although it provided for some flexibility in the case of smaller countries . |
| 22 | The surviving corner showed that it had at some stage been thickened to 7½ft or possibly , as the plan suggests , extended to form a buttress or column base . |
| 23 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |
| 24 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 25 | Weasel thought that it looked like some dark fungus or mushroom . |
| 26 | I can only say that it sounded like one of those across the passage from my room . ’ |
| 27 | Here is the offensive chorus of the song that started the fight : The magistrate listened to all this with a benevolent interest , although he confessed that it sounded like six-of-one and half-a-dozen-of-the-other , and that it would be unwise to take any action without clarifying evidence . |
| 28 | Following evidence produced at the Special Commissioners ' hearing , W purported to revise the accounting period by virtue of s 247(8) , TA 1970 so that it ran from 1 February 1977 to 31 January 1978 , rather than 25 October 1977 . |
| 29 | Only a quarter say that it led to in-service training and a fifth think that it improved staff relations and improved teaching methods . |
| 30 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |