Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sets the scene perhaps for it said it is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and he adds no sorrow to it . |
| 2 | A dreadful tragic place — elderly rheumatics dressing for dinner at the hotel ; artists not good enough ; beach-combers not young enough nor well enough off It filled me with pity and terror . |
| 3 | Everything continues more or less as it had before , and it becomes increasingly evident that Jesus 's death has accomplished nothing . |
| 4 | Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room . |
| 5 | On most of the nationalisation stock ( paid to compensate former owners ) and earlier long-term borrowings they inherited at nationalisation ( much of it raised at the low interest rates of the 1930s ) they paid only 3 per cent . |
| 6 | The lottery of life is an enticing work — not least in showing how one of the most exciting sectors of applied biomedical science in the 1990s rests on the curiosity-oriented work ( much of it conducted in Cambridge , England ) of the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 7 | The position of Agnos had been undermined by a large budget deficit ( much of it inherited ) , the effects of the country 's economic recession and the legacy of the 1989 earthquake [ see pp. 36970-71 ] . |
| 8 | Much like it did . |
| 9 | Of course , the price and income range varied , and so with it did the ‘ life-style ’ — a term for which the Fifties were still groping . |
| 10 | So up it went higher . |
| 11 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 12 | I knew there was only the one slice left , but I 've never been the sort deliberately to starve an animal to death , so in it went . |
| 13 | An unmarked car with John Law written all over it joined the black-and-whites . |
| 14 | And then of course people had picnics on the Sundays of the summer and er so on it grew more quite a lot from the hiring . |
| 15 | Far below — almost vertically below it seemed — lay the turbulent bed of the gorge and , all too frequently , the twisted remains of olive-green army lorries . |
| 16 | Piles just like it had already been loaded onto the boat , carefully stowed in its hold , covered by heavy sheeting and secured . |
| 17 | ‘ The government is trying to fiddle the figures in an attempt to curry political favour just like it fiddled the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I should have expected it to end just like it began with Stephanie — immediately , ’ said Rob . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's happening all over again , just like it did in Jonathan Ram 's day . |
| 20 | Costner can act very well , but it is his presence that really counts , a little like it did for James Stewart . |
| 21 | She accepted the offer gratefully , feeling the train slow down even more as it cruised into the vast amphitheatre of concrete and glass that was the terminus itself . |
| 22 | We would n't still be doing it if we did n't feel that it was creating enough profit in the meantime , and looked like it could create more as it went along . ’ |
| 23 | Finishing the book and having to go back to take photographs specially for it left me a bit jaded , so I did n't go out to the Alps this year . |
| 24 | Near the entrance the temperature was comfortable , but further in it rose progressively until it was intolerable . |
| 25 | The villagers close to it believed that the Dark Ireland was about to ride into the world , but only Medoc rode out , astride a coal-black horse , with Maeve thrown across the saddle before him . |
| 26 | ‘ Mankind has always been alone , ever since it left Earth , millennia ago . |
| 27 | Only when he had to stare straight into it did he flinch ; it was not , his face said , a pretty sight . |
| 28 | is that the same one that 's just gone past with it said erm snacks ? |
| 29 | The bird 's darting eye sought his frantically before it glazed ; he thought as it twitched about on the hard dry clods that he might break its neck to bring its death throes to an end . |
| 30 | Now , even in it took us some , some time to get the situation under control but we did eventually get it under control but , as I say , not without a lot of misgivings and very very strong complaints from the public at large . |