Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 2 | While I was struggling to stop it , frost was formed where it struck my already cold hand . |
| 3 | But in July Mary of Guise was able to fight back more successfully , and at the end of the month the two sides made another truce , by which Edinburgh was to be free to choose its religion , and Catholic observance was not to be reinstated where it had been suppressed . |
| 4 | His thick black curly hair seemed to grow around his head like a crown , leaving his forehead exposed where it had receded . |
| 5 | The Halifax , Britain 's biggest building society , also disclosed that it had set aside a £20m provision against its loans to the collapsed London docklands developer Kentish Property Group . |
| 6 | But in the immediate wake of the October 19 crash , IBM 's most serious rival , Comdisco , disclosed that it had lost $100m in a business that had nothing to do with its main occupation of leasing and trading IBM equipment . |
| 7 | Eventually , on Feb. 25 , the Israeli Foreign Ministry disclosed that it had formally requested additional US military aid worth US$1,000 million to offset defence costs incurred as a result of the crisis . |
| 8 | It was the only object , apart from the books , which reflected a personal taste ; Dalgliesh hardly supposed that it had been provided by a Government agency . |
| 9 | Sabre has stressed that it had no formal link with Clydesale Office Equipment , which has now closed down . |
| 10 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 11 | At the same time , while accepting that tension between richer and poorer peasants was growing and that Stolypin 's reform created fierce friction between those who separated from the commune and those who remained within it , revisionists have stressed that it did not shake their common determination that noble land should be transferred into their hands . |
| 12 | In fact , we might have to be reminded that it came from a pig at all . |
| 13 | Many would have claimed that it served none , that it was but the result of the Fall and of sin , and that it brought only harm and hurt to the world . |
| 14 | When the company was trying to stimulate confidence amongst its backers , Nimslo proudly claimed that it had ‘ received ’ nearly £3 million in government grants to tool up for British production at the Timex factory in Dundee . |
| 15 | UNITA , which had unilaterally downgraded the status of its delegation shortly before the talks , further claimed that it had already made concessions including the recognition of the ruling MPLA as a political party , and of President dos Santos as head of state . |
| 16 | The company previously claimed that it had used biodegradable cardboard packaging since 1957 . |
| 17 | The government initially claimed that it had no prior notice of the Commission 's intention to initiate proceedings , but it was later disclosed that this had been the subject of correspondence between the Commission and the Department of Transport . |
| 18 | It was claimed that it made rural communities vulnerable to guerrilla reprisals . |
| 19 | Harry Gent , at any rate , always claimed that it arose from the numerous illegal cockfights that were held in the cellar . |
| 20 | The seam had been so thoroughly picked that it had a sharp edge . |
| 21 | In the first annual report of the medical superintendent it was reported that it had not been necessary to use the padded cell on any occasion , despite the fact that many patients had been admitted handcuffed , leg iron locked or bound with cords and chains . |
| 22 | Iliescu later reported that it had been agreed to establish a dialogue involving the NSF and representatives of the 20 political parties now in existence [ These round table talks will be covered in the February News Digest . ] |
| 23 | The Colony , which had its legal status removed in February [ see p. 38002 ] , was still operating and former inmates had reported that it had been a centre for child sexual abuse and slave labour , and a torture centre for Pinochet 's DINA secret police following the 1973 military coup . |
| 24 | A Geneva-based consultancy hired by the United Nations to investigate the allegations subsequently reported that it had found no evidence that any hazardous waste had been exported to Somalia . |
| 25 | I decided it was just because she had n't mattered that it had n't been worth shocking her . |
| 26 | Instead it is thought Meiko will use the Fujitsu Ltd VP single-chip vector processor for floating point operations alongside the Texas Instruments Inc Viking SuperSparc for scalar operations , although Meiko has said that Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's HyperSparc will be considered once it became available ( UX No 385 ) , and that the i860 could work with the new architecture if required . |
| 27 | ‘ You had n't considered that it had nothing to do with you , I suppose ? |
| 28 | It took longer for the territories with loud speakers to be occupied than it did for the silent territories ( Figure 6.2 ) . |
| 29 | Miss Hannah Hauxwell , dressed in men 's trousers and old jacket so torn that it looked as though savaging by wolf packs had once been part of her daily routine , looked at me mildly . |
| 30 | He had protested that it did not have the money and had been told that ‘ the Minister would not wear a statement that funds were exhausted ’ . |