Example sentences of "[coord] it [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all else failed , or it simply appealed to her a woman could always turn to the ranks for employment . |
| 2 | ( c ) Branscombe A village in two parts ; in the 9th century it was owned by King Alfred and it later belonged to the Benedictine Abbey in Exeter . |
| 3 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 4 | I sat there in ITF 's London offices , listening to the problem and it just came to me . ’ |
| 5 | And it also managed to chip some of the woodwork , curious to think that I was offered as war damage compensation five pounds to re-case the piano , you could n't of had it repolished for five pounds , but thinking was working class people should n't have pianos , I 'm certain that was at the back of , of the gentleman whose job it was to evaluate war damage , he certainly raised his eyebrows every time we told him , what either a piece of furniture or crockery or cutlery which had been destroyed had cost and he was so foolish after er the house had been almost flattened as de demand bills as proof of evidence that your figures were correct |
| 6 | Further calculations supported this view , and it soon came to be adopted generally . |
| 7 | At the end of the luncheon Major Ronald Ferguson auctioned the brooch designed by Clive Ranger and generously donated , and it finally went to Mr Galen Weston 's bid of £8,500 . |
| 8 | Provided she could buy anything she wanted , when she wanted — and it never occurred to her to do otherwise — Louise was happy . |
| 9 | But the secular mind looked to them a starved mind , desolate of passion because robbed of faith , and it never occurred to them to doubt that religion possesses and monopolises the spiritual life . |
| 10 | I mean , I did n't think , Well , he could float in space , and it never occurred to me to ask where Sooty himself had come from , or the wand , but I was already heading towards not believing , I suppose . |
| 11 | You stood in the dark watching the glow and the flare of fireworks , and it never occurred to the other people to invite you in , and you could n't ask . |
| 12 | And it merely occurred to me , actually I was sitting in the unemployment benefit office and I said to them er er at one of my interviews , |
| 13 | Goldney , for reasons we do not know , declined the offer of the Cherokee earth and it therefore fell to Cookworthy and Champion to perfect the porcelain known as ‘ Bristol China ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 15 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 16 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 17 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 18 | And it certainly seemed to be working . |
| 19 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 20 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 21 | There was a little parapet going round the arcade and it suddenly occurred to Owen that it might provide a vantage-point from which he could more pleasantly monitor proceedings . |
| 22 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 23 | But it also led to her first public performance . |
| 24 | This helped to prevent a price slump but it also led to ‘ butter mountains ’ and ‘ wine lakes ’ which were expensive to store . |
| 25 | The project of integration with which Brooke-Rose began provided sufficient material for ‘ four average , competent novels ’ ( Brooke-Rose 1977a:134 ) , but it also led to a frustration with available formal strategies which prepared the way for the radical change in direction her oeuvre was to take with Out in 1964 . |
| 26 | The human and material world needed to be cleansed from within , but it also needed to be liberated from the powers without . |
| 27 | This criticism was in part a reflection of the call made by the Report of the Committee on Physical Deterioration for greater physical and mental education for adolescents , but it also pointed to the three main criticisms of clubs which were reiterated years later by Freeman : that they could only really provide amusement ; that their positive educational value was small ; and that they failed to reach the mass of boys . |
| 28 | I do n't know , of course , but it just seemed to me … well , and then there were the clothes . ’ |
| 29 | But it just got to me , each item more than the last . |
| 30 | But it just happened to be her best friend 's birthday and she was invited to a special birthday tea and to stay overnight . ’ |