Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [subord] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1988 a visiting colleague from the Royal Ulster Constabulary asked if it was part of my role in Systems Development Department to comment on such essays . |
| 2 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 3 | Grumman veterans bear the scars from the company 's many setbacks , especially the export triumph Grumman scored when it sold lots of F-14 Tomcats to Iran under the shah . |
| 4 | The lion turned , jaws slavering , eyes ablaze with fury and Corbett flinched as it came towards him , belly crouched , its tail twitching , its hind legs tense , then it sprang . |
| 5 | In The World 's Desire , Rider Haggard and his close friend Andrew Lang presented as it were their thesis of romance in a turgid tale based on certain theories of their time concerning possible trafficking between Achaean Greece , Crete and Egypt under the Ramessids . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts . |
| 7 | Perks appeared when it was time for the 11.54 to arrive . |
| 8 | Richard gagged as it pushed too far head trapped against the pillow but it pulled back out . |
| 9 | We can not imagine that this inevitable development is what IBM sought when it hid its mainframe price list . |
| 10 | Then the man in Riga asked if it was cold in Leningrad , and we said yes it was , and the man in Riga said you had to expect it now , and that the Riga Hotel was modern and well heated as long as it was n't damp . |
| 11 | Ronni sighed as it embraced her . |
| 12 | Gloucester 's first match was home to the Wasps.It finished as it started , all square . |
| 13 | Tolby flinched as it touched the skin . |
| 14 | Ross watched as it shuttled between them , going from hand to hand across thirty feet of air . |
| 15 | In an article published the same year , Kevin Sharpe questioned whether it was entirely accurate to label Laud as an Arminian , stressing that the archbishop saw as his main task not the propagation of a new theology but the prevention of divisive doctrinal debate . |
| 16 | No , regretfully Mrs Field died before it could be arranged . |
| 17 | ‘ No , ’ Iskandara said after it , and her voice had all the suppressed emotion in it that Alexandra had dreaded all her life . |
| 18 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
| 19 | The suicide note was mentioned , but not quoted ; Loretta wondered if it had not been read out at the inquest . |
| 20 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 21 | Pooley wondered if it was an attack of nerves or the result of alcohol withdrawal symptoms . |
| 22 | Rincewind wondered if it was poisonous , then chided himself for asking such a silly question . |
| 23 | But now , here , this morning , in this pokey little office in Queen Anne 's Gate , spring in the air in St James 's Park outside his windows , the sound of military music drifting across from Buckingham Palace as the guards marched — all the elements of human and political drama so clear in his mind — Mick wondered whether it really was his destiny to be no more than a player : just another player . |
| 24 | Duroc wondered whether it was an implant . |
| 25 | DECEMBER ENDED as it had begun , both bleak and cold . |
| 26 | Malcolm Muggeridge asked whether it was n't time for the monarchy to engage professional public relations consultants , ‘ in place of the rather ludicrous courtiers who now function as such . ’ |
| 27 | Dot asked the teacher what LCC meant since it was written on so many things . |
| 28 | But in saying that I 'll go ahead , I 'll go ahead with what Robert said although it seems as if erm between us we picked up on a lot of things , there was some objections that Martin threw at you that I thought you handled particularly well . |
| 29 | Cameron wondered if it would be possible to raise the matter with him again , and bring him into a more realistic frame of mind , before the soldiers came . |
| 30 | The steps were worn away at the centre , and Grainne wondered if it was from the footsteps which passed this way every night , or whether it was simply from age . |