Example sentences of "it [adj] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It all began on 13 April 1898 with 37 miles of the Corporation 's very own tramway track and an extra four miles kindly leased by Govan . |
| 2 | Though no eye-witness survived , there is reason to believe that it all began with some Bavarian soldiers brewing up coffee — in a delightfully careless South German way — on upturned cordite cases , using explosive scooped out of hand grenades as fuel ! |
| 3 | It all began in 1974 when the brothers invited J. Hamilton Stutt to design a golf course in this beautiful area of Camelot country . |
| 4 | And it all began in 1890 when a successful businessman , who could not dance a step , presented four ordinary little girls from Manchester in a pantomime at the Prince of Wales Theatre , Liverpool . |
| 5 | We can now see that it all began in 1979 . |
| 6 | They were the workers and er they sort of opened their kitchen up , or the back scullery , they went round to the local butcher scrounging and begging meat , to the greengrocers for peas , parsnips , carrots , you name it it all went into this big huge copper , which I 've previously described to you as a washing copper , and they boiled all this soup up and we kids used to take the a jug and er we had to find the biggest jug we could , in the house that we could get , well the biggest jug we ever had was the wash-hand stand that was in the bedroom , that 's the wash-hand stand jug . |
| 7 | Everyone at every level was involved and it all went without any major problems : great teamwork , 24-hours-a-day , seven days a week for five weeks , commissioning kit , painting , erecting racking and shifting all the ancillary equipment . |
| 8 | It all went like that then . |
| 9 | It was it was that everybody needed the money , then we and it all went in one pot . |
| 10 | It all coincided at that point . |
| 11 | It all culminated in three days of frustration which led to complaints of ‘ disgusting crowd behaviour ’ from the German players . |
| 12 | She had tried everything … appealing to common sense , persuasion , threats … but it all fell on deaf ears . |
| 13 | How it all came to this I still do n't quite know , so cloudy were the after-effects of the whiskey . |
| 14 | It all seemed like slow motion , the way the boy fell and the bike swerved and skidded . |
| 15 | They were taking part in a crucial first safety commissioning test when hundreds of tons of hot water were pumped through a section of the plant 's miles of piping … and it all passed with flying colours . |
| 16 | ‘ All this type of modern music that we play , if you think back to when it all started , whether it 's thrash , rap , disco , rock'n'roll , it all started with black people in slavery and poverty in the southern States , and about the only thing they could ever have a good time with was sex . |
| 17 | IT all started with dad-of-three John Gallagher , a 29-year-old Catholic shot through the heart as he ran for cover in Armagh on August 14 , 1969 . |
| 18 | It all started in 1882 when a number of local worthies , looking for ways of raising money to support Huddersfield Infirmary , decided to hold a ‘ Musical Gathering ’ on the Sunday of Feast Week . |
| 19 | It all started in 1743 , with ancester Timothy Shurey . |
| 20 | It all happened by repeated dragooning — not by me : I could n't have cared less that first term , I was so miserable . |
| 21 | ‘ When the Germans came , in March 1939 , it all happened in one night . |
| 22 | Nova Bio-medical has updated its series of ISE based electrolyte analysers that it first launched in 1977 . |
| 23 | 15 ( 1 ) No action shall be brought by any person to recover any land after the expiration of twelve years from the date on which the right of action accrued to him or , if it first accrued to some person through whom he claims , to that person . |
| 24 | It first met in 1893 under the leadership of T. C. M. Asser , a notable Dutch scholar , though it was the work of the Italian Mancini which first promoted the idea of such a meeting . |
| 25 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 26 | It is the first major development at the school since it first opened in 1957 . |
| 27 | The attacks started after building work began on the biggest improvement scheme carried out at the centre since it first opened in 1982 . |
| 28 | They would n't , the miners hardly got anything and there used to be soup kitchens for us and er when it first started in nineteen twenty six and er I was pregnant with my second one and I used to walk right down to Pit with a lace , great big lace basket , they would n't let the men fetch the coal and we had to push the coal from there right to the , oh they 've no idea love , no idea . |
| 29 | Designed as a ‘ fun ’ aeroplane it first flew in 1934 or 1935 , subsequently being taken on by the Soviet Air Force as the standard advanced trainer for fighter pilots with production totalling 1,241 by early 1940 . |
| 30 | Fitted with a Renault engine , it first flew in 1937 and went on to become the standard Soviet primary trainer throughout World War Two . |