Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It continued to lose weight until it caught the attentioin of a neighbour who reported to the RSPCA that winter . |
| 2 | Alex Griffiths , Marks & Spencer 's fish executive , was surprised at the idea that the company might have even contemplated using Billingsgate when it began selling fresh fish nationally four years ago . |
| 3 | I asked Pat if it had been love at first sight . |
| 4 | This bias was particularly strong during our Pre-Campaign Wave in March when Prime Minister Thatcher visited Moscow but it continued at a reduced level throughout the final campaign . |
| 5 | They are strays , having been carried here by the glacier that once occupied Crummackdale as it retreated at the end of the Ice Age , scouring the ground as it departed and bringing down the boulders from their place of origin higher in the valley . |
| 6 | They would n't recognise emotion if it stood up and hit them ! ’ |
| 7 | Somewhere , across the green , a car changed gear as it moved towards Lulling , and hummed away into nothingness . |
| 8 | There surely are some people in A&R who would n't recognise talent if it hit them squarely between the eyes and others inebriated on their own power . |
| 9 | I quoted Shakespeare : ‘ Stands Scotland where it did . |
| 10 | We allowed our gaze to wander south until it lighted upon the bulk of Ancohuma 's eastern slopes , a face we knew nothing of on a mountain that had only just entered our lives . |
| 11 | ‘ And you would n't recognise truth if it jumped up and bit you . |
| 12 | The NGA was , at one point , fined £150,000 ; some time later it was fined £375,000 and it had its entire assets of £11 m seized . |
| 13 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 14 | There was the sound of crunching metal as it hit one of the trees a glancing blow and came to a rocking halt . |
| 15 | The alternative option , clearly the one it favoured , was ‘ to accept Israel as it existed on the condition that each refugee be allowed to return to his home , whether it was under Arab or Israeli jurisdiction . ’ |
| 16 | It was while reading an article about frozen food packaging equipped with a warning patch which changed colour as the food melted , that Wotherspoon made the connection which lies at the root of all great inventions : why not a climbing rope which changed colour after it had been stressed ? |
| 17 | The east could only overthrow colonialism if it formed a separate Colonial International to fight against it ( and , by implication , the working-class form of colonialism in the Communist party ) . |
| 18 | In conference with Gerald Gardiner , subsequently Lord Chancellor , who had somewhat late in the day raised his flag as a member of the Labour Party , it was decided that the best course of action was for the Labour Party to be asked to be represented by Gardiner at the Vassall Tribunal and to inform Radcliffe that it had no additional witness to come to him . |
| 19 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 20 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 21 | Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold . |
| 22 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 23 | If the market were weak , the authorities intended simply to withdraw rather than give support until it strengthened again , when gilt-edged sales would be resumed . |
| 24 | He was the first high-ranking UN official to visit Taiwan since it withdrew from the UN in 1971 . |
| 25 | Here was a player who had clean kit for every match , who actually trained at home and , more importantly , scored goals where it mattered — between the posts . |
| 26 | Then , he wrote a West End musical based on his aunt 's Remembering Judi and it transferred to Broadway , with Nina Kenyon making an impressive singing debut in her original role , finally outgrossing everything written by Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 27 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 28 | Marx condemned capitalism because it frustrated human potential and self-actualization , but believed it was a necessary stage in human dialectical development . |
| 29 | Just as the Singing Detective caused outrage when it featured similar amorous action shot in a shady area , director Ken Russell makes his current coupling couple keep their clothes hanging on . |
| 30 | And the revenue got mean and decided it could n't afford the time of serving officers and it left pre-retirement council and other bodies with a gap to fill er the only other people who are er professional if you like , who could fill it , would be accountants and they were n't available . |