Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clive had a stammer and had learnt through regression that it had originated when he had been the subject of bullying at school . |
| 2 | I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems . |
| 3 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 4 | As its great historian pointed out , " French became the language of states because it had become the language of courts and aristocracies " . |
| 5 | And of course when it got heated it used to blow and it used to blow all the burning debris all over . |
| 6 | In the days since her visit to me , her mind had become so used to the idea of walking in the vicinity of birds that it had seemed quite a natural thing to do . |
| 7 | Assertion of the principle served to do away with the monarch 's previously claimed powers to suspend or dispense with acts of Parliament and it served to deny judges the power to strike down measures . |
| 8 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 9 | The notion of ‘ adaptability ’ was always attractive to various groups of reformers because it appeared to promise so much . |
| 10 | A screwed access plug or ‘ eye ’ in the bottom of the U made it possible to empty the trap of debris if it got blocked . |
| 11 | Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 . |
| 12 | It was a low budget production but drew a certain amount of attention as it attempted to explore spiritualism . |
| 13 | However the activities of that former director came to the attention of Lautro and it decided to carry out an investigation into W. Plc. 's affairs . |
| 14 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 15 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 16 | The little striker lunged towards a header from Levein and hooked the ball to the left of Martin and it appeared to cross the line before the goalkeeper palmed it out , only for referee Jim McCluskey to rule it out . |
| 17 | In 1798 the threat of military invasion from Napoleonic France had only just ebbed when the Bishop of Durham announced to a startled House of Lords that it had come to his attention that the only reason the enemy forces had backed away from military invasion was because they had hit on a more sinister method of bringing Britannia to heel . |
| 18 | The Treasury had been so close to running out of money prior to the passage of legislation that it had postponed an auction of $40,000 million in government securities . |
| 19 | And if that was you know you could , I supp , you could argue that the French revolution had been built on notions of liberalism and it had encouraged nationalism in Europe . |
| 20 | Late in 1988 I purchased a second-hand Toyota KS901 ( we are now the best of friends but it did take a while ) . |
| 21 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 22 | Even so , the advance of privatization was a notable shift in public debate , a great reversal of the growth of corporatism as it had rolled on , government after government , since the centralization of the First World War . |
| 23 | Did the Church of England have so obsessed an idea of hierarchy that it liked promoting people up a ladder without any snakes ? |
| 24 | In the years between 300 and 550 there was much work of codification and it began to take shape under Theodosius the Great in the Western Empire in 438 . |
| 25 | ‘ You do not get a good spread of risk and it kept putting the premiums up . |
| 26 | Even professional men , it seems , would dabble in a bit of commerce if it helped pay the bills . |
| 27 | Indeed , BA would almost certainly have pulled out of negotiations if it had thought a referral was likely . |
| 28 | The aircraft , a well used Boeing 707/436 , had spent much of its life on the trunk routes of BOAC and it had accumulated about 47 000 flying hours up to the time when the crack was discovered . |
| 29 | Above all , Mosley had tried to reassure the country that persecution of race or religion was against the fundamental tenets of Fascism as it had evolved in England . |
| 30 | On the contrary , progress was essential to their optimistic vision of history because it seemed to guarantee that the world was moving in a purposeful direction towards a morally significant goal . |