Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Here and there a regular path of some animal helped them but it rarely ran in one direction for long and they were unwilling to lose contact with the water which they would eventually have to cross .
2 It eventually led to Civil War .
3 The postponement of the opera ( it eventually opened on 13 January ) meant that Nannerl , who reached Munich on 4 January 1775 , was able to hear the first performance .
4 It apparently remained in continuous use throughout medieval times ; it figures as the main road from Oxford to Banbury in Ogilby 's road-book ( 1675 ) ; it was turnpiked in the eighteenth century and it still follows its original course after some three thousand years .
5 Mattlock 's business judgement was vindicated by Cotton Town 's sales : it only went into one printing .
6 A lot of chemical reactions are actually reversible , but the tend to be mainly going very much in one direction , so we just say we just write it as though it only went in one direction .
7 But it only remained of crucial importance to that small minority of bigoted constables who classify all Catholics as equally evil and nefarious .
8 The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place .
9 I tell you in all candour that the option no longer exists , and that , insofar as it ever did exist , it only worked on each occasion since the war by injecting a bigger dose of inflation into the economy , followed by a higher level of unemployment as the next step . ’ ?
10 It was a grandiose theme so radical and ridiculous that it naturally appealed to many intelligence officers living in their secret world of fantasies who saw it as a convenient excuse for all their previous problems and disasters .
11 The minds of the other literate villagers were dissipated on what they could pick up in a random manner : most of it naturally consisted of religious tracts , the traditional fodder left over from the past .
12 Mr and Mrs are as I understand it entirely satisfied with that school .
13 But , indeed , the whole general effect is to divorce Resident Tutors from the WEA ; the Resident Tutor would be excluded from urban areas , while on the other hand the WEA would be to say the least of it extremely circumscribed in rural areas .
14 ‘ Or else it just died of old age and the owners dumped it .
15 More realistically , though , he conceded that as beautiful as it was as screen art it nevertheless belonged to that category of films ‘ which would not enrich their producers ’ .
16 I still think some of the things on it were OK , but it generally fell between any number of stools . ’
17 It thereupon wrote to all institutions offering advanced work asking them to provide detailed information about student numbers and other aspects of planning forward to 1984–5 .
18 Inevitably , however , the teacher-training target had to be adjusted downwards as the DES successively announced cuts in teacher-training provision in England and Wales before , in July 1977 , it finally settled on 2,900 places .
19 He then laid the tape across the diameter so that it exactly stretched from one side of the circle to the other .
20 It thus cut across existing interests in the region , notably those of the Stanley family , whose landed interests in the north west had been augmented by several key duchy offices .
21 It thus cut across existing interests in the region , notably those of the Stanley family , whose landed interests in the north west had been augmented by several key duchy offices .
22 Then it gradually went from five pounds to ten .
23 The laser injury which had damaged the tendons was months old , but it still ached after violent exertion .
24 Possibly it was secondhand , but it still looked like five bucks ' worth of book , I reckoned .
25 It still happened to other people and all .
26 On 5–7 May the Schutzkorps took part in the mass exodus via the Loibl Pass into Austria where it formally surrendered on 12 May to 1st Guards Brigade , under 6 Armoured Div , and settled in Viktring camp , a few miles south-west of Klagenfurt , with other Yugoslav refugees ( see below ) .
27 In 1832 Dr Frederick Foster Hervey Quinn introduced it to Britain , where , despite opposition from the orthodox practitioners , it quickly spread to various parts of the country .
28 In the beginning , okay believed in and or whatever you wan na call it , but it also believed in other gods as well , except he was the chief god , he was number one god as it were and he 's the one you got to follow .
29 It also resulted in fundamental changes to the principles on which they operated .
30 It also led to closer contacts between the dancers as they moved from picture to picture within the design .
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