Example sentences of "[vb past] it [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 2 | A drop of soap trickled into his eyes and he rubbed it only to find that he had created more pain . |
| 3 | Mrs d'Urberville held each bird and felt it carefully to see that it was in good health . |
| 4 | How did it just happen that Harris could maintain his Offensive despite disastrous occasions like Nuremburg . |
| 5 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 6 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 7 | He said it correctly suspecting that the Conservatives were about to be pitched back into opposition by Lord Aberdeen 's coalition of Peelites , Whigs and Liberals . |