Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards , incongruously dressed in a raincoat , she went to the bows and stared briefly down at the mesmerising onrush of sea where it split and foamed at Wavebreaker 's cutwater . |
| 2 | Nutty switched her attention once more to the deep end , where it seemed that Nails was giving Jazz a compulsory lesson in turns . |
| 3 | Where it seemed that this would cause injustice , equity stepped in with the doctrine of " part performance " : if the contract were partly performed , equity would not allow a statute to be used " as an engine of fraud " . |
| 4 | A bib had been tied around Bissell 's neck to collect the raw , liquid plaster which oozed from his mouth where it congealed and hardened . |
| 5 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 6 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 7 | I knew exactly where it stood because one of our pampas bushes was there and , in the middle of it , a coloured ball of Tony 's . |
| 8 | A few French Commandos were making their way across the farmyard in the direction of a large barn where it appeared that someone was attempting to prepare breakfast . |
| 9 | Key areas where ‘ perverse incentives ’ are most likely to pressurise NHS and SSDs after April are best indicated by the Institute of Health Services Managers ' evidence to Parliament , where it complained that there was no satisfactory delineation of social care from health care . |
| 10 | The cursor is left on the last instance found , if the search was successful , or where it started if the search failed . |
| 11 | The union had already moved from its fine premises in Buckingham Street , Strandon 22 September 1894 as an economy measure and eventually found a more permanent home , along with the Green 's Home branch , at the Maritime Hall , West India Dock Road , London E. where it remained until Head Office was moved to St.George 's Hall , Westminster Bridge Road , London S.E. in May 1921 . |
| 12 | Stepping forward to get a firmer grip , I trod on the rake whose handle leapt up , giving me a nasty crack on the brow and a making me stagger , knocking a bottle of systemic insecticide on to the floor , where it shattered and spread a nauseating puddle at my feet . |
| 13 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 14 | Another landed on his cheek where it sizzled and went out . |
| 15 | Or it did until rock'n'roll started to get self-conscious , and the fashion industry took over . |
| 16 | Although it recognised that the eight areas of experience were important , the secondary school curriculum was discussed largely in terms of subjects because that is how secondary education is organised . |
| 17 | And although it accepted that on the whole the department did all it could to control him , on the day he assaulted a 70-year-old woman the court ruled that he had n't been properly supervised , and ordered the council to pay 700 pounds in compensation . |
| 18 | Although it struck after the spring corn had been sown , the immediate effect on agriculture was catastrophic . |
| 19 | At its official relaunch , the new party leadership promised to field at least 250 candidates , and to concentrate on " politically interesting " seats , although it admitted that it could not win any . |
| 20 | It was beginning to swell and there were signs of bruising , but she could move her fingers , although it hurt when she tried to bend her wrist . |
| 21 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 22 | In Britton , the actions of the defendant took place late at night , and at some distance from the street , and the court took the view that these facts militated against calling this a distribution , although it said that had there been evidence that the documents were visible to whoever passed by , this might amount to publication , with which the particular defendant had not been charged . |
| 23 | On July 31 the Commission issued an " essentially positive " opinion ( or recommendation to EC governments ) on Austria 's application , although it said that the government needed to give assurances that its neutrality policy would not obstruct EC moves towards a common foreign and security policy . |
| 24 | Although it emphasized that the sum required was not only insignificant compared with military spending world-wide , but only half as much as Germany was expected to spend on the process of unification , the report also acknowledged that more efficient use could be made of the money already being spent . |
| 25 | Once he frogmarched a knocker out of a press conference , although it transpired that he could hardly wait to see what the victim wrote next . |
| 26 | It is not obvious why the Court was concerned with the possible application of Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s.133 to the activation of the suspended sentence in this case ( although it concluded that it did not apply in any event ) . |
| 27 | The study concluded that there has been no reported increase in any radiation-related illnesses , such as leukaemia , birth defects or thyroid cancer , in the villages surrounding the reactor , although it suggested that incidence of thyroid cancer might increase over the next five to ten years . |
| 28 | State-controlled television claimed on Nov. 18 that the opposition protest " had fizzled out as people dissociated themselves from the politics of disruption and violence " , although it acknowledged that stoning and tear-gassing in Lahore had " caused inconvenience " . |
| 29 | I think it was a worm that it had but |
| 30 | The strange and difficult was becoming second nature in the way that it had when I 'd learned to fly . |