Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police landrover followed the car to the gates and for about a mile after it turned . |
| 2 | But out it came , the lunch , the champagne , the money , all the green and folding stuff . |
| 3 | Far below — almost vertically below it seemed — lay the turbulent bed of the gorge and , all too frequently , the twisted remains of olive-green army lorries . |
| 4 | Below it stood the childhood doll 's house she had intended to renovate for posterity and the guitar whose broken strings had halted her on the path to world fame as a singer of gypsy ballads , in a costume of scarlet and yellow sewn with little mirrors . |
| 5 | This did not in fact happen , but the earlier suggestion of it kept some of the wealthier clients on tap . |
| 6 | It was plain to her that her therapist was meticulous , thoughtful and highly trained — it was undeniable — but Scarlet increasingly found all that beside the point because her malaise had not significantly decreased with treatment , and worrying about the cost of it kept her awake at night . |
| 7 | Much of it kept for himself and his family . |
| 8 | He had a small but good library , much of it kept on shelves on the first landing . |
| 9 | Much of it resembled the old Dutch genre paintings that had ‘ a touch of the curious and a moral to be learned ’ . ’ |
| 10 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 11 | The enormity of it rocked her . |
| 12 | The thought of it rocked him in his chair . |
| 13 | A couple of weeks later , just as most of the officers and men of the Allied Screening Commission in Verona were preparing to go off for the weekend to the country , an enormous , chauffeur-driven Fiat motor car with a flag on the front of it rolled up in the drive . |
| 14 | The impossibility of it grew in Paul 's mind , and by the time he reached his lodgings that was made up . |
| 15 | The result of this obvious strategy would be to spread the hydra around still further , so that more and more of it grew from the savaged fragments left behind . |
| 16 | The witness concerned should explain that he had a good unobstructed view of the traffic lights and that they were at red when the vehicle or part of it passed them . |
| 17 | The worst of it passed , but his teeth still chattered feebly . |
| 18 | Meanwhile his sales of It continued as a profitable sideline . |
| 19 | Man 's nature was two-sided , only half of it led to wrong-doing , the other half prohibited sin . |
| 20 | It was impossible to avoid each other in such a hectic department , but fortunately the very business of it meant that any and every contact was necessarily fairly brisk . |
| 21 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 22 | Seldom can a chancellor have been given so much advice , some of it sought , some of it gratuitous — and , as is the way with this subject , much of it conflicting . |
| 23 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |
| 24 | A quilling of the punched flannel is put round the face , and a band of it laid on behind , and across the top of the head , strings of the same , are also sewed in . |
| 25 | She imagined she was cupping this white-hot power in her womb , and that the walls of it contained the fire . |
| 26 | In In re A Debtor ( No. 1 of 1987 ) the Court of Appeal refused to follow that approach and held that a statutory demand , which on the face of it contained a number of puzzling and perplexing statements , was nonetheless valid because the debtor knew precisely what he owed and there was no injustice in holding that his failure to pay the debt gave rise to a presumption that he was unable to pay . |
| 27 | Inside , the rooms are light and panelled with elegant pedimented overdoors , and it is sad to think that the full splendour of Bullen Reynes 's house was only enjoyed by his son and his family for a few short years ; the bulk of it burned down in 1704 . |
| 28 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 29 | Thus we are accumulating in our local rubbish dumps tons of baby excreta , some of it infected , which sooner or later will dribble into our water supply . |
| 30 | He tried to pretend that none of it mattered , could half convince himself . |