Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 2 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 3 | It is therefore very unlikely that the court would insist on an expert giving reasons where it had not been agreed beforehand that he would . |
| 4 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 5 | This had opened in Fulham in 1945 , but soon moved into the buildings formerly occupied by St John 's Wood Art Schools where it became a vital centre for those interested in French art . |
| 6 | There was some difficulty over widening in Stafford Road , which was already partly built up with houses and shops where it passed through Wallington . |
| 7 | Here was a player who had clean kit for every match , who actually trained at home and , more importantly , scored goals where it mattered — between the posts . |
| 8 | It was only in the tenth and eleventh centuries that it became normal or common for giant churches to be built . |
| 9 | It 's been argued by it 's supporters that it ushered in an era of peace . |
| 10 | What Labour needs above all is the network of working-class activists , sympathisers and supporters that it had in workplaces and on housing estates even as recently as 20 years ago . |
| 11 | One farmer told the authors that it cost him 194,000 Somali shillings ( $14 ) to grow 100 kilos ( 220lbs ) of maize , which he could sell for a mere 55,000 shillings at the local market . |
| 12 | The industry wanted to be able to use the funds that it had generated to invest in youth training . |
| 13 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 14 | Software602 , the Czech Republic 's largest packaged software vendor , announced it has shelved plans to prosecute a group of Czech teenagers that it alleged had illegally copied software packages belonging to it after the Business Software Alliance refuted the company 's assertions that it was backing the case . |
| 15 | The USSR devoted more energy and resources to the development of diplomatic and trading ties with these nations than it did to establishing effective operational links with the Communist parties . |
| 16 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |
| 17 | Alex Carlile , Liberal Democrat spokesman for Wales said : ‘ I hope the Government will take the same view of damage by flood to Welsh homes that it took to damage to Her Majesty 's home . ’ |
| 18 | Irrespective of the certainties or ambiguities in the roles that it had begun to develop , the CNAA was also — as a policy instrument — incomplete . |
| 19 | ‘ Kalli , ’ wrote Denness in his autobiography , ‘ was so angry that he smashed his bat so savagely on the pavilion steps that it broke in two . ’ |
| 20 | We did n't stop talking like but the talk s just sort of stemmed around the house and the kids and it did n't go any further than that . |
| 21 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 22 | There was still a little awe in her wide grey eyes and it added to the astonishingly innocent look that intrigued everyone . |
| 23 | She thought she detected the ghost of amusement in his blue eyes and it incensed her even more . |
| 24 | Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit |
| 25 | ‘ It was hard to fight my way out of the reserves and it took a long time for me to recover . ’ |
| 26 | The idea of settling Jews in Palestine , the British Foreign Office cabled two of its ambassadors in 1916 , ‘ might be made far more attractive to the majority of Jews if it held out to them the prospect that when in course of time the Jewish colonists in Palestine grew strong enough to cope with the Arab population they may be allowed to take the management of the internal affairs of Palestine … into their own hands … |
| 27 | The volatile oily liquid beta-chloro-beta-ethyl sulphide was first synthesized in 1854 , and in 1887 it was reported to produce blisters if it touched the skin . |
| 28 | The King was , however , also King of his Dominions and it had been provided by the Statute of Westminster 1931 , s.4 , that Parliament should not legislate for the Dominions ( defined as Australia , Canada , the Irish Free State , Newfoundland , New Zealand and the Union of South Africa ) except at the request of and with the consent of the Dominion concerned . |
| 29 | The driver spun the wheel as the Mercedes reached the end of the row of parked cars and it skidded sideways , the left corner of the rear bumper crumpling in a flash of sparks as it glanced off the wall . |
| 30 | Her father was a dealer in second-hand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it . |