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

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1 Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take .
2 Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK .
3 It was on a Tuesday that it happened .
4 ‘ The Michelangelo computer virus that received worldwide attention last year is expected to cause even fewer problems this Saturday than it did when it struck last year , a team of IBM researchers said ’ .
5 I think we 're entitled to ask if Nottinghamshire faces those problems , what is peculiar about Leicestershire that it did face those problems but all of a sudden it does n't face those problems .
6 While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry .
7 Indeed , it was one of the great merits of manufacturing to the early eighteenth-century observer Daniel Defoe that it brought increased employment and greater prosperity to a district compared with those which remained wholly dependent on agriculture .
8 During the weeks directly afterwards he confided his distress in Keith Gregory and it established a strong bond between them .
9 Then , he wrote a West End musical based on his aunt 's Remembering Judi and it transferred to Broadway , with Nina Kenyon making an impressive singing debut in her original role , finally outgrossing everything written by Andrew Lloyd Webber .
10 That was her style in the Falklands and it remained her style in a number of the confrontations that she faced over the next years .
11 For example , one of the galleries might want the Picasso if it also gets the Cezanne but not the Turner ; but it would not insist on the Picasso if it got the Turner ; but would want both if it did not get the Cezanne .
12 I had been very naive when we started out in Rotherham and it came as a shock to me to realize that not everyone can see the justness of a just cause .
13 Had been found lacking by Dionne and it hurt .
14 She kissed Lucy and it did n't matter that somehow her lips landed only on her cheek .
15 During the Second World War Petwood was requisitioned by the R.A.F. and it became the Officer 's Mess for 617 Squadron , better known as ‘ The Dambusters ’ , after their bombings of the Mohne and Eder dams .
16 I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight .
17 Given Khoneinis constant Anti-American rhetoric , this was quite a success for the United States and it led Ambassador with the new regime .
18 This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it .
19 Inchoate anger seethed on in the Weald until it exploded in the autumn of 1645 when the ‘ Clubmen ’ appeared , basically a ‘ confederacy with the vulgar multitude ’ of tenant farmers .
20 I was fostered with Millie and it went from there .
21 Not only did the WEA have providing rights and responsibilities in negotiations with the Board of Education and LEAs but it enhanced its position and status in seeking funds from philanthropic bodies to support pioneering , experimental schemes for the provision of adult education , particularly in rural areas .
22 Derek Cook went close with a looping shot on 70 minutes , then blasted over from eight yards a minute later ; those misses might have demoralised Coleraine but it had the opposite effect .
23 Jordan 's hope of containing the PLO challenge lay in Washington 's decision in 1975 not to recognize the PLO unless it accepted the legitimacy of Israel and Security Council Resolution 242 .
24 We started calling them Ronnie but it got a bit confusing .
25 On the most trivial of levels it could be claimed that Version 3.0 had caught up with Ventura because it supported stylesheets and graphics wraparound .
26 California 's SIP was rejected by the EPA because it did not provide for attainment of the photochemical oxidant standard for Los Angeles .
27 Party rivalry was so intense in England under the later Stuarts because it affected not just the political elite at the centre , but cut deep into society .
28 But the harsh fact is that the UN was able to operate effectively in liberating Kuwait because it suited US national interests to undertake this task ; and America and its allies clearly preferred to operate with the Security Council 's approval .
29 He was the first high-ranking UN official to visit Taiwan since it withdrew from the UN in 1971 .
30 The Uruguayan agreement consisted of a barter arrangement ( Soviet oil for Uruguayan wool ) , which suited Montevideo since it had a large surplus of wool and a shortage of foreign exchange .
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