Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | IF HEINZ announced that it uses people to test the taste of its baked beans , who 'd be surprised ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |