Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 2 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 3 | Nothing much to add except that Redfern scored but it did n't really matter . |
| 4 | This qualification of support for the replacement of Friern and Claybury meant that it fell back upon regional officers , once again , to decide whether to go ahead with the initiative , or to abandon it . |
| 5 | The lion turned , jaws slavering , eyes ablaze with fury and Corbett flinched as it came towards him , belly crouched , its tail twitching , its hind legs tense , then it sprang . |
| 6 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 7 | The boys parted , and Robert saw that it contained a villainous-looking man of about four foot in height . |
| 8 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 9 | Damon rubbed Lee 's stomach with his foot the way you would a dog 's and Lee screamed because it tickled . |
| 10 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |
| 11 | The initiative was immediately rejected by the USA and Israel , whilst King Fahd claimed that it " made matters more difficult " and Egypt asserted that it created " new ambiguities " . |
| 12 | Sword clanged on stone , and Fedorov cursed as it jarred his wrist . |
| 13 | Beaverbrook said that it came from Henderson ; Balfour said that it came from Bonar Law ; Law 's biographer said that it came from Balfour ; and Crewe said that it came from Montagu and Derby . |
| 14 | At that time the presence of these pupils was seen as a problem , one that would very probably get worse before ( and most people predicted ) natural processes of assimilation and dispersal meant that it got better . |
| 15 | The boy stood up and his expression of mixed defiance and desperation showed that it had cost him something to enter this house . |
| 16 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 17 | Exports increased to 69% this time from 64% of total sales last , but Curtis said that it did n't benefit much from the movements in exchange rates . |
| 18 | The £4.1 billion jump in bank-lending was month was twice the average monthly increase in 1992 , but economists warned that it reflected a rebound rather than new hope that consumers are taking on significantly bigger borrowings to fuel recovery . |
| 19 | Aoun , and most Western diplomats , blamed the LF militia for the attack , but Geaga claimed that it had been organized by Aoun 's own intelligence officers in an attempt to gain a measure of international sympathy . |
| 20 | Ahmed : I must say that I did n't think much of the group when it was first set up because f felt that it wasted a lot of time whinging about all the things that were ‘ being handed to the Black workers on a plate because anti-racism was currently fashionable ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 22 | Next morning , the pair took the air of Montrose ; they saw the church , since replaced with another ; the town hall had ‘ a handsome fabrick with a portico ’ , wrote Johnson ( it still has ) , while Boswell noted that it had a ‘ good dancing-room , and other rooms for tea-drinking ’ . |
| 23 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 24 | Lorentz spoke of the film 's brilliance whilst Photoplay suggested that it had come ‘ as near to reproducing reality as anything you have ever witnessed ’ . |
| 25 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 26 | Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts . |
| 27 | From July 1 unemployment was officially registered in the Soviet Union for the first time since 1930 ( when Stalin declared that it had been eliminated ) . |
| 28 | That was n't so difficult , was it ? ’ he said , and , when Caroline admitted that it had n't been , he said that in that case , would she please agree to do another private showing in mid-afternoon ? |
| 29 | Believing still that the catastrophe had been caused by other people and the actions of other people , believing it as firmly as Kate believed that it had been caused by devils and Quentin that it was part of God 's mystery , Lavinia saw a spark in the gloom . |
| 30 | Lillee bowled another bouncer which did not get up as much as Fletch anticipated and it hit him straight on the head as he took his eye off the ball . |