Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could do was write a letter , and by the time I 'd written a letter and it got where it was going and a reply got back , a week or two weeks could have gone by . |
| 2 | It came as a relief at this stage to find that I had got my sums right , and everything met where it ought ! |
| 3 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 4 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 5 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 6 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 7 | In his will Captain Sykes left the School £1,000 , and his son proposed that it be used to build an extra classroom . |
| 8 | During negotiations Iraq proposed that it would recognize all of Kuwait 's land borders in return for full rights to Warba island and the lease of half of Bubiyan . |
| 9 | Russia proposed that it be regarded as the successor state of the Soviet Union in respect of the START treaty , but this was finally rejected by the others in April [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 10 | They proposed that it was a function of the mean payout ratio , the predicted short-term earnings and long-term dividend growth rates , the variability of the historical earnings growth rates and the historical earnings growth rate . |
| 11 | Stirling shouted that it was every man for himself . |
| 12 | Alf Morris , the Labour Party 's spokesman for the disabled , promised that it would increase pensions above the rate of inflation . |
| 13 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 14 | The Defence Minister barely flinched as the camera zoomed in for a close-up of his face as they ran the famous film clip from mid-December , 1987 , in which he promised that it would all be over by Christmas . |
| 15 | ONCE UPON a time , the government of Norway promised that it would not only protect the wolf as an endangered species , but even maintain a breeding population of the beast . |
| 16 | He sensed their relief : the twinkling ‘ brute ’ promised that it would not be unremittingly solemn ; the man could still see a light side . |
| 17 | The first count of the declaration , upon which alone the question arises , stated that , in consideration that the plaintiff , at the request of the defendant , had bought of the defendant a horse for the sum of £30 , the defendant promised that it was sound and free from vice . |
| 18 | He also acknowledged the extent of the country 's current economic recession but , invoking the spirit of Desert Storm ( the operational codename for the US prosecution of the Gulf war ) , he promised that it would be overcome . |
| 19 | Tinbergen demonstrated that it was possible , simply by watching animals , to make a scientific study of them . |
| 20 | He demonstrated that it was possible to convert amateur natural history into professional zoology by the straightforward device of quantified observation . |
| 21 | Further experiments with what he began to call ‘ orgone energy ’ demonstrated that it was present everywhere , in the atmosphere and particularly in living things . |
| 22 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 23 | The recent tours of the Republic by New Zealand and world champions Australia demonstrated that it still continues to do so — and how . |
| 24 | The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility . |
| 25 | The sadness of what is in effect the breakup of the comprehensive system is that it occurs at the point when the system was reaching a confidence and maturity which demonstrated that it could meet the demands of the late twentieth century . |
| 26 | A report by the West Yorkshire Low Pay Unit demonstrated that it was not only residents who ran the risk of exploitation , but also the staff . |
| 27 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 28 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 29 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |
| 30 | He nevertheless maintained that it would have been irresponsible of him to have gone forward without warning colleagues of his reservations . |