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Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	He grimaced and scratched his short , curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartan cap .
2	As she returned kiss for kiss , sure of nothing but her need for him , she felt his hand free her hair where it clung to her hot damp skin , then glide lightly down .
3	She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh .
4	This orientation , Siemens suggests , was imposed from Teotihuacan where it had special astronomical and ritual significance .
5	She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself .
6	The report of the European Parliament , entitled ‘ Blue Europe ’ ( document A 2-0319/88 ) , was to the same effect where it stated that
7	Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone .
8	Huy felt he could get drunk on the smell of Taheb , sinking his lips into the base of her neck where it joined the shoulder .
9	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 .
10	Before her a green sea rippled , melting into azure where it met the sky .
11	The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage .
12	Nanchang CJ-6A N3104U was sold on the 18th for $ 40,000 and then the buyer re-entered the aircraft on the 19th auction where it did not sell .
13	The CNAA 's procedures , its concern with the total academic environment in which its courses were offered , had led it — at a time when its relationships with the institutions were under intensive discussion — to a position in which it could directly influence the management and operation of an institution where it perceived weaknesses , as well as the institution 's own relationships with governors and the local authority .
14	The brigade that it faced had been forced to give ground .
15	The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) .
16	The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October .
17	Some of the criticism which its recommendations attracted was due to the perception that it concentrated too much on medical and nursing issues .
18	‘ The fact that the Department had , in effect , advised the partnership that it did not need a licence made it difficult for the Department to point a finger of blame at them , ’ says Sir Anthony .
19	Which came mercifully swiftly , in the shape of another devastatingly accurate straight left , and then a perfect right uppercut which hardly seemed to travel more than a foot , but which was delivered with such a force that it lifted Mike up on to his toes , before toppling him backwards in a heap at his elder brothers ' feet .
20	It connected with such force that it cut Mr Major 's right cheek , splattered his glasses and dribbled down his dark blue suit .
21	By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day .
22	Well before 1330 the Angevin Empire had ceased to be the dynamic and significant political force that it had been in the mid and late twelfth century .
23	Barking ferociously , the big Great Dane rushed from the rear of the house , skidded around the corner and hurled herself at the gate with such force that it creaked under the impact .
24	Among them , the suggestion that during surgery her head was n't properly supported , or that a surgical hammer used in the operation was applied with so much force that it damaged her spinal cord .
25	The defendant struck with the knife into her throat on the left-hand side just near the jugular vein , with such force that it severed the spinal cord , causing almost instant paralysis .
26	Although Labour was defeated in the General Election of 1924 , the election which saw the publication of the ‘ Zinoviev Letter ’ with the allegation that it revealed the Communist intention to stir the masses of workers to revolution through using the Labour Party and the Anti-Soviet treaty , its vote increased by more than one million , or about 24 per cent , even though the number of Labour MPs was reduced from 191 to 151 .
27	The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet .
28	No pay was given for Bank Holidays , with the result that it took weeks to recover from the loss of income .
29	The stock was always conceived as essentially complementary to the house 's fine interior , with the result that it retained a domestic atmosphere .
30	Circumcision as a rite had been performed in Israel for many centuries , but it was only with the exile that it assumed the character of a covenantal sign between God and his chosen people .