Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 2 | Certainly the early universe does not obey the symmetry T : as time runs forward the universe expands-if it ran backward , the universe would be contracting . |
| 3 | The survey also pointed to two weaknesses : marketing ( where it failed to make the top ten ) and capacity to innovate ( where it came seventh ) . |
| 4 | I would send dignity to the devil , where it came from . ’ |
| 5 | I have no idea who got that extra money or where it came from . |
| 6 | Fleming went on to describe how the nasal secretions of the patient ( himself , in fact ) were cultured , and how a round microbe or coccus first grew and then was destroyed where it came close to the nasal secretion . |
| 7 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 8 | The term first appeared in the nonsense works of Edward Lear , but where it came from no one knows . |
| 9 | She had never questioned where it came from , though she knew deep inside . |
| 10 | Cadbury World is a permanent exhibition devoted entirely to Chocolate — where it came from , who first drank the mysterious potion , when it became eating chocolate and the part Cadbury played in this fascinating story . |
| 11 | We do n't know what it is or where it came from , but there 's obviously something in it ! ’ |
| 12 | Where it came from goodness only knows , but it survived illness , unhappiness and the hum drum of Roundhay . |
| 13 | Is that where it came from ? ’ |
| 14 | where it came to rest . |
| 15 | Has anyone got an idea where it came from ? |
| 16 | Huddersfield Town .... 3 Nottingham Forest .... 3 ( aet ; score at 90 minutes 3-3 ; Forest win on away goals ) NOTTINGHAM FOREST , the Littlewoods Cup holders , stayed in the competition by the skin of their teeth last night at Leeds Road , where it took the League 's away goals regulations to defeat the otherwise indomitable spirit of Huddersfield in a stirring tie . |
| 17 | Our survey rates Shell most highly for its management quality , where it took first place ( see table 3 ) . |
| 18 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 19 | Then , round a corner , you find yourself in the famous archaeological dig , which has been reconstructed where it took place , with the preserved tenth century buildings re-erected where they were found . |
| 20 | Legally registered only since late February , Rukh also performed well in the west of the republic ( a nationalist heartland ) , where it took control of the Lvov city soviet . |
| 21 | She went where it directed her , tracing a design on the face of the Earth . |
| 22 | He never ceased to wonder at the irony of expecting miracles from a reliquary in which her bones had once lain for only three days and nights , before being returned reverently to her native Welsh earth ; and even more to be wondered at , the infinite mercy that had transmitted grace through all those miles between , forgiven the presence of a sorry human sinner in the coffin she had quitted , and let the radiance of miracle remain invisibly about her altar , unpredictable , accessible , a shade wanton in where it gave and where it denied , as the stuff of miracles is liable to be , at least to the human view . |
| 23 | There were no bandages large enough in the wheelbarrow to make a cold compress , so I poured water on my sock where it touched the inflammation , but the water filled my boot and left the sock barely damp . |
| 24 | She was swathed in a red silk dress that fitted where it touched . |
| 25 | She was at least ten years Cunningham 's junior , Harry judged , blonde-haired and bright-eyed with a sparkling smile ; all pert vivacity and curvaceous promise in a black woollen dress that fitted where it touched , as Barry Chipchase would undoubtedly have phrased it . |
| 26 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 27 | By that time the flame was also very thin , and where it touched the wall the molten rock spat and ran . |
| 28 | One had mange so badly it was nearly bald : it moped around , scratching the exposed pink skin that had cracked and flaked where it stretched briefly over the jutting spine and ribcage . |
| 29 | For a while , landscape work was restricted to historical geography , where it produced , and continues to produce , a rich vein of national ( Hoskins , 1955 ) and regional ( Armstrong , 1975 ) descriptions of the evolution of landscape . |
| 30 | Iago slung his harp over his shoulder , where it carried snugly under his cloak on horseback , and hunched one shoulder slightly under the cape of his capuchon when he went afoot in England . |