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

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1 a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company .
2 I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall .
3 It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses .
4 In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers .
5 It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 .
6 The same was not true of the broader European Economic Community , which despite its wider brief demonstrated that it had both strength and flexibility .
7 Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist .
8 When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices .
9 Morocco maintained that it had " crushed " the offensive with the loss of only 45 soldiers , and a further 56 wounded , its estimate of Polisario losses amounting to 87 soldiers and a " large number " wounded or taken prisoner .
10 The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories .
11 Whilst there are undoubted cultural factors acting on the latency phenomenon , as Freud himself recognized , he nevertheless maintained that it rested on a biological , innate foundation .
12 Anderson , the Clerk to the meeting , who was strongly attached to Sir John Anstruther , when he was called upon to attach the seal to the commission returning Alexander ‘ pretended that it had been abstracted from him ’ .
13 Lucy also saw the plan Doreen had in mind , but she doubted that it had much to do with married couples in search of outdoor adventure .
14 I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist .
15 When she came to pay for the bill , she found that it had already been paid .
16 Taking up an oil-can she went out and towards the old outbuildings , to the door next to the one leading into the barn and , moving it , she found that it had n't been oiled .
17 But , much to her surprise , when the bread was baked and she took it out , she found that it had turned to a beautiful large loaf of the finest wheat flour .
18 I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake .
19 British town planning , both as a movement and as a profession , found that it had a relevance to wider questions to which it could respond .
20 Blix , in Libya for the opening of the first Arab conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy , visited Libya 's one declared nuclear reactor , the small Soviet-built Tajura research reactor outside Tripoli , and found that it had been shut down since June 1991 because spare parts were no longer available and most of the Soviet scientists who had worked there had gone home .
21 The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) .
22 I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again .
23 She took a path across the land at the side of the house and found that it led to a small wood which girdled the top of the hill on which the house was built .
24 To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black .
25 Of course , I had never walked in snow before , and I found that it made my feet very cold .
26 Sinking down on her bed , she found that it took her quite some time to get herself more of one piece .
27 and I found D Y by D X and I found that it came to erm X squared .
28 Thames exercised the clause by hiring one piece of plant for £40,000 less than the contractor had paid — and found that it eased tensions between them .
29 On opening it , she found that it contained a note from Ben .
30 Plotting the line on a map , he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey , the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island from a conspicuous mark : a hallowed clump of hawthorn .
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