Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time , Jane became aware of anti-Semitism , and it horrified her . |
| 2 | It horrified her to hear her own voice screaming at her husband for his indolence but she could not help herself . |
| 3 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 4 | Neuron Data , better known for its Nexpert expert system until it re-invented itself as a GUI development outfit , plans to push on into what it sees as a burgeoning market for software which can make an ISV 's job designing solutions which work across heterogeneous environments much easier . |
| 5 | This one was just about right , though it bulged our financial boundaries , and we moved in with the previous owners ' carpets and curtains and little else . |
| 6 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 7 | God 's explanation of this little piece of street theatre ran as follows : you did n't punish the gourd when it failed you , did you ; and in the same way I 'm not going to punish Nineveh . |
| 8 | When it failed she virtually gave up , and accepted the facts for what they were . ’ |
| 9 | It applied its new cash limits to approvals of local capital spending and to local grants . |
| 10 | We followed the wall 160 ft , at which point it doubled its width and was continuing and we had no time to go further . |
| 11 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 12 | From then on , throughout the fifties , it doubled itself every five years . |
| 13 | In fact it doubled itself in size every day . |
| 14 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover . |
| 15 | It pricked his curiosity but he shook his head , saying , ‘ Ah — I have to be away to Dublin . ’ |
| 16 | One of the maids yelped as it pinned her skirt to a cupboard . |
| 17 | It pinned her sleeves to her side and cuffed both cheeks ; somehow it blew all the badness away and out of her and she was safe . |
| 18 | It pinned us down and made us feel that we could n't not go back without feeling terribly guilty . |
| 19 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 20 | Since we had been back in Reine , Jean-Claude had stopped speaking of Montaine 's death as if it haunted him unduly . |
| 21 | Still , it haunted me . |
| 22 | Clegg , in the first novel , is obsessed from the beginning , after he has heard Miranda speak for the first time , he says ‘ It haunted me . |
| 23 | Official recognition from the French Government came in 1965 when it commissioned his Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum to commemorate the dead of two wars . |
| 24 | In the event , it got nothing of the kind . |
| 25 | Said it got him out of the rut for a while . |
| 26 | But perhaps you do n't remember how he hated that life , and what a state it got him into . |
| 27 | I think it got him thinking positive . |
| 28 | But it got him in the end . |
| 29 | It got him out of the house , gave him a bit of exercise , kept him young . |
| 30 | He was one of those ‘ look after number one ’ types , not averse to trampling on other people if it got him where he wanted to be . |