Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this was the intention it came to nothing , for the title was abolished in 1554 . |
| 2 | But the little dog I went , I took a friend to collect her little dog from the vet it 's had a double hernia , has n't it , double hernia , it , it had a tremendous operation dear little thing , but she said he had a wart under he 's eye and on it 's own accord it dried up and dropped off . |
| 3 | When you said you came from good tough stock it made me shiver a bit . |
| 4 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 5 | Cambridge-line passengers , celebrating the establishment of an electric link to Bishop 's Stortford and Liverpool Street , felt short-changed when the only trains BR could offer were facelifted 1960 built Class 305 slam-door stock , actually older than the hauled stock it replaced . |
| 6 | According to the printed card it had , until quite recently , been in ( illegal ) service on a farm near Marienborg . |
| 7 | And er so you see on the wedding er card it had on er , Mr and Mrs Shaw request the pleasure of Mrs Abbott at their daughter 's wedding . |
| 8 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 9 | Perhaps the heat had given his mind the boost it needed to throw off the dream world that had gradually surrounded him since Paula 's fall into the maw of the Beast . |
| 10 | She had learnt long ago that Nahum 's chief interest in the Foundling Hospital was the boost it gave to his own ego being on the Board of Governors , a position acquired mainly through the generosity of his brother-in-law , John Bradford , who always supported the charity financially . |
| 11 | A third was made with such force it went through her stomach and up to her heart . |
| 12 | The door crashed open and slammed back against the wall with such force it seemed it would come off the hinges . |
| 13 | The NKLP 'S sister party in the south , the SKLP , had suffered serious reverses in 1949 at the hands of the Rhee government and was no longer the force it had once been . |
| 14 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 15 | The word came from Ruth with such force it startled her . |
| 16 | At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house . |
| 17 | Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech . |
| 18 | She thought that the spasm of pain would be followed by vomiting , as it often was , but by the time she reached her bedroom it had passed . |
| 19 | I did n't like the slow speed it moved at . |
| 20 | With a burst of terrific speed it headed out to sea . |
| 21 | ‘ The speed it spread , that 's not electrical , it spread like tart 's clap . ’ |
| 22 | With Sarah Chester 's on the brink of insolvency it occurred to me he might be panicking … ’ |
| 23 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 24 | If she had spoken in charity to an unhappy invalid it had also been negligent of a larger truth : that they were representative of two very different principles — ; principles that might meet only in an hour of need , or in honest confrontation with one another . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 26 | It sill shows the damage inflicted by Maj von Keller with an axe behind a barn at Quatre Bras ; to his disappointment it contained only dishes and toilet articles , not the gold coins he had expected . |
| 27 | Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges . |
| 28 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 29 | As a result it slipped into a loss of £1.33m in 1988 against a £1.71m taxable profit in 1987 . |
| 30 | The damage this did to our criticism was as nothing compared with the harm it did to our poetry . |