Example sentences of "in [noun prp] and it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We had looked at the agent in March and it seemed OK , ’ spokesman John Garner says .
2 I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause .
3 This building was the first great Byzantine church in Russia and it set the pattern for innumerable smaller churches .
4 I was reading an article ( Echoes , March 3 ) by David Isaacs about an old soldier 's experience in Singapore and it reminded me of a conversation with a friend in Carlisle .
5 I had once had to witness Otto tackling a bundle in Paris and it left a lasting impression : of an elephant stripping bark .
6 [ Drafted in 1986 , this was the first systematic revision of the terms of the post-war international settlement in Yugoslavia and it opened the way to the Great Serbian expansion which began in 1987 . ]
7 He said it was the last ’ closed shop ’ in Britain and it had to go .
8 ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’
9 It resulted in a massive increase in government spending both in the United States and in Europe and it created a bipartisan consensus , a sense of political solidarity both domestically and among allies , in the pursuit of shared war aims .
10 Having set up a presence in the south east with representative offices in Japan , P&W felt confident enough to establish a bridgehead in Glasgow and it opened an office in the city last January .
11 It developed into the small , but well-endowed parish of St. John the Baptist in Bedford and it escaped the destruction and confiscation of property that was the lot of monasteries and most hospitals during the Reformation .
12 But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it .
13 He had already done some painting in Vienna and it had shown in some of the very early exhibitions at Euston Road School .
14 The programme had been linked to student unrest in June and it had indeed become a focus of attention among young intellectuals on the campuses .
15 ‘ Space Oddity ’ was written as a two-part song , and I recall he played this song in my tiny little kitchen in Beckenham and it sounded absolutely wonderful to me . ’
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