Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy for adopted parents to feel hurt or rejected and it is only rarely that they and the child make the search together . |
| 2 | If the application is made on the grounds that debts have been paid or secured and it is known that there are creditors who have not proved their debts , the court may direct that notice be given to them of the application and order the trustee ( or official receiver ) to advertise the application and , in the meantime , adjourn the application for not less than thirty-five days ( r 6.209 ) . |
| 3 | We ask for three O eight to be referred or opposed if it is not and that you support motion three O nine as it 's in line with current policy . |
| 4 | They have , of course , heard about the Holy Spirit , but have either put it all down to typical ecclesiastical in-talk , or assumed that it was not intended for ordinary folk like themselves . |
| 5 | 3.3 The Tenant shall as soon as practicable after the date of this agreement at its own expense prepare the Plans and submit them to the Landlord for approval [ such approval not to be unreasonably withheld [ or delayed ] ] The landlord 's approval of the plans should not be unreasonably withheld or delayed and it would be advisable for the tenant to commence the preparation of the plans as soon as it may be practicable in order to avoid subsequent delay . |
| 6 | The principle of treatment by similars — that what a remedy could produce it could also cure — was as far as we know first put forward by the Greek physician Hippocrates in the fifth century B C. Over the centuries , however , it was forgotten or disregarded and it was not until the end of the eighteenth century that it was rediscovered empirically by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann . |
| 7 | Much so-called ‘ atonal ’ music is only music with a tonal foundation so obscured or disrupted that it is not easily perceived . |
| 8 | However , as an economist and Labour supporter , I was never convinced by its campaign , or felt that it was winning or deserved to win . |
| 9 | Universal franchise has not produced the working-class political dominance which so many people in the nineteenth century on both sides of the debate either feared or hoped that it would . |
| 10 | During the countless terrifying minutes before she managed to wriggle free and scramble off the bench , Isabel neither knew nor cared whether it was she or his fever that had caused fitzAlan 's loss of consciousness . |
| 11 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |
| 12 | The Governors considered the job description too vague and asked that it be made precise . |
| 13 | Its former owner , the late Audrey Barrie-Brown left it to the Roman Research Trust and asked that it be turned into an educational centre . |
| 14 | USL , reportedly working along similar lines ( UX No 383 ) , has declined to comment officially , and asked whether it was developing its own solution or buying the technology in from elsewhere , director of low-end Unix systems , Bill Traber , said ‘ I ca n't answer that . ’ |
| 15 | As a friend of Linde 's , I was rather embarrassed , however , when I was later sent his paper by a scientific journal and asked whether it was suitable for publication . |
| 16 | Elsie joined me on the river bank and asked if it was hot enough for me . |
| 17 | I cheekily went across to a detached cottage and asked if it was possible to get a bite to eat . |
| 18 | Eventually , thunder rumbled in the distance , and he looked up and asked if it was gun-fire ; when I said I thought not , he moved to the door saying , ‘ If Mr Colin recommends them , I 'll take all three ’ . |
| 19 | I filed that away and asked if it was all right for the girls to stay until the doctors had done their rounds . |
| 20 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 21 | Suffering fever , blindness and paralysis , they reached Lake Tanganyika in 1857 but it was Speke who eventually found Lake Victoria and realized that it was the reservoir which fed the great river . |
| 22 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 23 | But she caught sight of her watch and realized that it would be half-past three in the morning in New York . |
| 24 | So it was a breakthrough and I noticed this change in sixty eight and realized that it would be possible to do small-scale removals . |
| 25 | I saw no point in lying to an already acerbic-looking policeman , and agreed that it was . |
| 26 | The women put their heads together and agreed that it would be no bad thing if Loverin laid on hard with his strap . |
| 27 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 28 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 29 | Corbett stared at the hard-eyed French envoy and realised that it was impossible to press the matter . |
| 30 | He discovered that Bob was twenty-five , four years his junior , and realised that it was the first time since his brother Joe 's marriage , when they were seventeen and twenty , that he had had a companion of roughly his own age . |