Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 2 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 3 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 4 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 5 | 3.3 The Tenant shall as soon as practicable after the date of this agreement at its own expense prepare the Plans and submit them to the Landlord for approval [ such approval not to be unreasonably withheld [ or delayed ] ] The landlord 's approval of the plans should not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and it would be advisable for the tenant to commence the preparation of the plans as soon as it may be practicable in order to avoid subsequent delay . |
| 6 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 7 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 8 | However , as an economist and Labour supporter , I was never convinced by its campaign , or felt that it was winning or deserved to win . |
| 9 | Universal franchise has not produced the working-class political dominance which so many people in the nineteenth century on both sides of the debate either feared or hoped that it would . |
| 10 | During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . |
| 11 | The watching nomes gazed at a pack of sandwiches bigger than they were , and a Thermos flask that steamed when it was opened and filled the hut with the smell of soup . |
| 12 | ‘ I decided that was the job that appealed and it 's just as well because at the interview I talked myself out of the other jobs by being so keen on the post office . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Ray Sunman , the Darlington council officer who helped co-ordinate the project , said : ‘ I believe our success has influenced a great many projects that came after it . ’ |
| 14 | Thus it rejected Owen 's bid , revolutionary in concept but illusory in fact , to appropriate all industry into a nationwide industrial democracy : and , by that rejection , but quite unaware that it had done so , left unimpeded the second stage of the Industrial Revolution , the stage that guaranteed that it too would be irreversible , that the continuance of a phenomenal increase in the production of wealth could occur . |
| 15 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 16 | He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day . |
| 17 | The little blue trolls from space , the black-eyed pointy-chinned grey things in charge , the anal probing they inflicted on Christopher Walken inside something that looked like it might have been a UFO , event he awe-inspiring ham standard of Walken 's performance — they were all OK . |
| 18 | When Aston Villa forward Billy Walker scored two goals against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final of 1920 he was wearing a kit that looked like it had been designed by Yohji , styled by Gaultier and captured for posterity by Bruce Weber and his trusty box brownie . |
| 19 | I turned the light on , sorted through the keys for one that looked like it might match the door to the cellar . |
| 20 | There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough . |
| 21 | The strongest smell on the roof , though , was of the coke that sang as it burned in the brazier . |
| 22 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 23 | Erm quite rightly the director said that predictions in terms of residential admissions and nursing home admissions would be easier to make this year than last year and I accept it was very difficult then year but I 'd just like to know how close the actual outcome is likely to be to the original prediction , really for information , not because I think you could have got it any closer than did but it would be just interesting to know what the s the gap was . |
| 24 | It was only the events afterwards that proved that it did n't work , but they were n't clear at this time |
| 25 | She was at least ten years Cunningham 's junior , Harry judged , blonde-haired and bright-eyed with a sparkling smile ; all pert vivacity and curvaceous promise in a black woollen dress that fitted where it touched , as Barry Chipchase would undoubtedly have phrased it . |
| 26 | ‘ It was England 's bugles that sounded and it was our young men who answered . |
| 27 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 28 | In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption . |
| 29 | Her previous calm gave away to terror that escalated until it threatened to overwhelm her . |
| 30 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |