Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [vb past] it [prep] " in BNC.

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1 They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway .
2 They recorded information on the circumstances of the death and the symptoms and signs that preceded it on a form that included both an open history of the final illness and screening questions for the presence of common symptoms , followed by the application of appropriate modules with precoded answers .
3 ‘ It was the razor blades that did it for me , ’ he reckons .
4 But the fine fuzz of tiny spines that covered it in life are not present .
5 Calpers , with $68 billion under management , is taking advice from American law firm Coubert Brothers after Daiwa Securities paid £320 million in damages to Japanese investors that accused it of tobashi .
6 When she got off the bus at her usual stop , even the moderate leafiness of the district contributed to her hopes , and she saw , fleetingly , the features that caused it to be described by others as a desirable residential area .
7 That this was true offered no excuse to the sick , evil , vicious minds that used it as a tool .
8 The United States , faced with an allocation problem , began a review of its defensive commitments that led it to the conclusion that in the event of a military confrontation with the Soviet Union in Europe , the resources it could commit to the fledgling NATO alliance would be insufficient .
9 Similar preoccupations dominated the issues that took It into the spring of 1967 .
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