Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 2 | By the fifteenth century the King of England was Lord of Ireland , though his new territory was separate enough to have its own parliament , whose power was reduced but not eliminated by Poyning 's Law of 1495 , which forbade it to pass any law that had not been approved in advance by the King and his council . |
| 3 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 4 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 5 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 6 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 7 | On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster . |
| 8 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 9 | European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future . |
| 10 | The set was so tacky she expected it to collapse each time one of the characters came through the door . |
| 11 | Did it form any part of the Council 's ? |
| 12 | And did it make any difference , theologically speaking , whether he knew or not ? |
| 13 | Or did it make any difference either way ? |
| 14 | " Did it make any difference to your light ? " |
| 15 | Never again did it match that apex of prosperity that it reached during the brief nine years that Shah Jehan ruled from the Red Fort . |
| 16 | Why — why — why ? she had asked herself over and over again , why did it end that way ? |
| 17 | Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck . |
| 18 | The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s . |
| 19 | ‘ Unless you did it to gain some advantage , of course . ’ |
| 20 | They were sitting on the terrace outside her curved stables-cottage , watching the sun go down over Capability Brown 's vista , uninterrupted because of the ha-ha ( however did it get that name ? ) — and they were talking , over glasses of wine , about poetry . |
| 21 | I only did it to impress that lot . |
| 22 | Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ? |
| 23 | It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs . |
| 24 | Did it have any connection with the Castle Museum opposite the court , which was once a women 's prison ? |
| 25 | Why did it happen this way ? |
| 26 | I mean how long did it take that washer a week , if that |
| 27 | I was thinking , God , did it sting this morning ? |
| 28 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |
| 29 | Had it had any bearing ? |
| 30 | you were asked a few questions about the contingency fund , was setting up the contingency fund , had it got any connection at all with the Daily Telegraph article ? |