Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it applied also to the Chartists — ‘ A nation can not become free and at the same time continue to oppress other nations ’ . |
| 2 | It applied equally to the Galapagos Archipelago where the ancestors of Darwin 's finches had on arrival resolutely stuck to their islands and refused to travel short distances across water to interbreed and had consequently evolved into thirteen distinct species . |
| 3 | The ingenuity of it was that it operated exactly like a Jacquard loom , which is a loom for weaving tapestries without human control no matter how intricate or varied the design . |
| 4 | It seems possible that it operated fitfully until the spring of 1911 . |
| 5 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |
| 6 | and then when it got over to the Clerks ' Department they used to stick it on another piece of paper so that they could put it on the file |
| 7 | The barrage initially had been aimed at the civilians but Maj Waters said as it got closer to the convoy , two trucks had been damaged . |
| 8 | Yeah I reckon so I reckon that 's how it got outside on the floor ! |
| 9 | They would n't even tell their own mothers what size socks they wear , in case it got out to the papers . ’ |
| 10 | The publican 's daughter told her elder sister , who told her aunt , and so it got back to the girl 's parents . |
| 11 | It harked back to the world of the fourth- and fifth-century Christian emperors ; at the same time it signalled a new world of money-using economic agents including peasants and small-scale traders . |
| 12 | But in fact it was the docking crew as a whole who were at fault , because the platform 's progress towards the support cradle should have been halted as soon as it passed completely through the field , so that earthing and other safety procedures could be instigated . |
| 13 | But most of it had already escaped the princes ' grasp in the tenth century ; in the course of the eleventh , it passed squarely into the hands of local castellans , who exacted fines and imposed penalties on their peasants with remorseless vigour . |
| 14 | It passed out of the family 's hands and became a mental hospital in 1935 . |
| 15 | I did n't try the grilled Greek halloumi cheese with pitta bread , but as it passed by on the way to another table I rather wished I had . |
| 16 | It gleamed dully from a puddle outside the gates , which were high and solid , made of interlocking vertical planks . |
| 17 | Fenella , who had found Tara a place of breathtaking beauty and who would have very much liked to explore it , saw how it gleamed gently against the night and seemed to have some inner radiance of its own . |
| 18 | Even before I met him I 'd admired a North Shore picture of his which showed the Kam Highway as it meandered out of the hills and down into Haleiwa , flanked by pineapple plantations and clumps of trees , and in the distance the Pacific , rippling with big waves . |
| 19 | There was always a pause , in the pit , some law , that it levelled out before the spew . |
| 20 | It lived mainly in the savannahs of North America at the end of the Cretaceous . |
| 21 | Shafts of bright sunlight pierced the smoke as it welled up from the eaves and spread across the roof in a fine blue film. , Kāli came out into the doorway with a plate of puris and a small bowl of oil . |
| 22 | Billing itself as ‘ a whole new slant on the modern dance ’ , it crept cautiously onto the newsstands at the end of May with Jerry Dammers staring out in full , glossy colour . |
| 23 | yeah , but that in which case I think you should try and tie the story in with it became in like the canteen |
| 24 | It was wider than it had looked and Fenella thought she had been right to think it led away from the road , deeper into the hillside . |
| 25 | To their left it led up into the trees . |
| 26 | It led directly into the chapel . |
| 27 | Moreover , when this was done it led back to the study of linear Diophantine equations , a problem that Smith had already solved ( Box A ) . |
| 28 | It hopped tentatively to the entrance , then spread its wings and flew away . |
| 29 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 30 | It arose out of an action for professional negligence against a firm of accountants , but the person bringing the action went bankrupt . |