Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 32 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 33 | Kaye enjoyed helping the group but found that it eroded her own identity . |
| 34 | Okapi was certainly easy to use and most people found that it needed minimal learning and relearning . |
| 35 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 36 | ‘ I had always thought that its grip on me was purely personal , ’ wrote Amanda , ‘ — I loved it simply because it was my home — but then I found that it caught other people in its web too . ’ |
| 37 | He got up and went to the piano , sat on the stool and found that it revolved . |
| 38 | She tried to push the thought from her mind but found that it persisted . |
| 39 | When Wendy opened hers , she found that it consisted entirely of crispbread and realised that she would be able to eat only during the applause — Harrison Birtwhistle 's music had not yet been written . |
| 40 | Assembling our find on deck we found that it consisted of a case of 10,000 cigarettes and several cases of spirits . |
| 41 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 42 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 43 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 44 | The provision of specialised consultants for accident units also came under criticism and the committee reported that it took seven years , until 1992 , for the number of A&E consultants in Scotland to increase from 11 to 23 , even though the most recent review concluded that 34 were needed . |
| 45 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |
| 46 | McCaw Cellular Communication Inc reported that it sold about 14.5m newly issued shares of Class A common stock to AT&T Co for $400m as part of AT&T 's negotiated attempt to win a 33% stake for $3,730m and acquire an option for voting control of wireless phone company . |
| 47 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 48 | In 1980 the Royal Commission on Legal Services reported that it had : |
| 49 | The Board reported that it had established management objectives and expressed confidence that the introduction of new management techniques , in many cases building on work in hand , would lead to significant improvements in the speed and quality of service and efficiency . |
| 50 | AFP reported that it had received the information from the Paris-based dissident group , the Federation for Democracy in China . |
| 51 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 52 | Lovley reported that it has not been determined how the bacteria break down the chemicals , but he speculated that they are converted into carbon dioxide and chloride or fluoride salts . |
| 53 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 54 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 55 | Since just before I moved and it triggered it off . |
| 56 | Whether strictly order twenty eight , er order sixty , rule twenty eight for erm applies in this case is not amount entirely clear to me because the obligation to lodge a bill of taxation under rule twenty nine provides that he must begin proceedings for the taxation either within three months after the judgement direction or order of the terminations enter sides are otherwise perfected , and that is presently on it 's face which seemed to be debited May of nineteen ninety three and er accordingly that is right , it 's not in fact been any failure to comply with order tw order sixty two , rule twenty nine , one , and that has n't been disregarded , it 's not entirely clear to me that erm there is any matter come from paragraph sub paragraph A of rule twenty eight , four , it may already require , still nevertheless erm fall within paragraph B of rule fo , erm there has in fact been a delay in lodging the bill of costs for taxation , the delay being really and truly , the delay in having the order of Mr Justice perfected and it seems to me that although in chasing matters generally speaking it is the court will itself draw the order , nevertheless where er it seems to be clearly in this case would contemplate it that counsel would sign a minute erm that counsel do sign a minute and that minute has been signed having forwarded by the defendants solicitors to the defendants solicitors seems to me it must be the case that erm the obligation to , as it were , forward that minute to the court , it is an obligation which would lie upon the plaintiffs solicitors and it maybe said that erm there has been delay and erm on the best it should be lodged with the court sealed , er shortly after it was received and that therefore on that footing there has been delay lodging the bill of costs for concession , er Mr , doctor does n't seemed to be take any point in relation to that er because it 's not in his interest to do so , it seems to be that he does have to say if it has been delayed , with an order of twenty eight rule four that 's a rule , rule , rule twenty eight er four if he is to have interest disbarred and er Mr er he 'll apparently have the matter of read before the taxing master , it seems that the taxing master did not chew any sympathy with that er suggestion , that er there was in fact no breach of the requirement rule twenty , four , Mr he said , very probably , that erm , look on text upon it , he really is concerned to erm have this case dealt with as you put it on the merits , it seems to me it 's in the interest of all parties that erm I should deal with the case on merits have on the assumption erm that er , that that was lodged properly I think , I ca I , a matter of which found within rule twenty eight , four and that the taxing officer give our interest under that rule . |
| 57 | Her fingers running through the ruff of fur around the cat 's neck tightened as Jehan spoke , and the cat yowled and it bit playfully at her hand . |
| 58 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 59 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 60 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |