Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] 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 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 4 | If it still remains uncomfortable , then we , then we need to have a closer look and we may need to get the eye specialist involved if it 's refused to settle down . |
| 5 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 6 | An inquest has been told that a plane crashed because it had a flat battery . |
| 7 | The Netherlands disagreed because it thought harmonised taxes would be too weak . |
| 8 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 9 | Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ . |
| 10 | Yet a regression from those principles soon occurred after it became apparent that the orderly industrial relations which were sought were not being achieved ( Levine , 1958 ; Barkin , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise . |
| 12 | A quiver ran through her which heated as it travelled through her body and which he must have noticed , for he smiled mockingly at her . |
| 13 | This picture of a universe that started off very hot and cooled as it expanded is in agreement with all the observational evidence that we have today . |
| 14 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 15 | He tried a grin , but winced as it hurt him . |
| 16 | At Manchester Airport on 25 August 1985 , a British Airtours charter jet crashed as it prepared for take-off . |
| 17 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 18 | In the country 's fifth air disaster in four months , the China Southern Airlines plane crashed as it approached to land at the city of Guilin . |
| 19 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 20 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 21 | Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc . |
| 22 | Yet it nearly stopped when it started . |
| 23 | And it stopped when it hit something . |
| 24 | and trembled as it fed — |
| 25 | As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 . |
| 26 | The idea was considered but rejected because it did not meet the Government 's timetable . |
| 27 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 28 | With that warning in mind , the outcome for Japan in the 1980s is nevertheless surprising : its only clear advantage in the cost of equity capital came while it had a wild , speculative market in shares , land and warrants in 1987–89 . |
| 29 | Göring 's popularity in particular suffered as it became evident that , whatever successes German troops were having in distant parts , as head of the Luftwaffe , he was unable to guarantee the protection of the homeland . |
| 30 | Maybe we are like a photocopy of God that got a bit crumpled and smudged as it came out of the machine so that his image in us has got a bit spoilt , but that does not alter the fact that every person has something of God about them . |