Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 2 | Reviewing Dunster in the Financial Times , Isabel Quigly described the book as ‘ masterly ’ and Boyd Tonkin in New Statesman and Society thought it purred along ‘ like a vintage but comfily upholstered limo ’ . |
| 3 | To the left a group of barren islets , suggesting ruins of stone walls , towers and block houses , had its foundations set in a blue sea that itself looked solid , so still and stable did it lie below my feet ; even the track of light from the westering sun shone smoothly , without that animated glitter which tells of an imperceptible ripple ( 2 ) . |
| 4 | I made one last effort to see if my parachute was still there , and to my amazement and relief found it had not been torn off after all . |
| 5 | When they tried to get rid of toxic waste in Bolsover , the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food had it sent to Severn Trent in the west midlands . |
| 6 | According to the Wall Street Journal , former IBM Corp chairman John Akers is ‘ still technically an IBM employee , though he has lost his title , his board seat and his office at IBM 's Armonk , New York headquarters — he and his secretary have been quietly relocated to an IBM building in Stamford , Connecticut ; ’ we seem to recall something similar happening to an editor of the late lamented Datalink — first he was told he was no longer editor , but that there was a desk in Computing 's office — until Computing decided it needed it , whereupon a desk was found in the library , whereupon he resigned . |
| 7 | Subsequently Ortman dived it to 500 mph plus , but flutter caused it to break up and he used his parachute . |
| 8 | Oliver would have gone on wrangling but Rain said it did not matter , her car was outside . |
| 9 | Apple had claimed that Quorum had violated its intellectual property rights , while Quorum claimed it had avoided the infringement of any third-party intellectual property rights , including Apple 's . |
| 10 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that notwithstanding the wording of section 8(2) of the Finance Act 1986 W. Plc. was not a member of the self-regulating organisation Lautro for the purposes of the Act and had no right of appeal to Lautro under the provisions of Lautro 's 1988 Rules ; that Lautro had a duty to act fairly not only to its members but , in appropriate circumstances , to those appointed representatives on which , in accordance with its rules , an intervention notice was to be served ; but that , in determining whether those affected by an intervention notice should be permitted to make representations before the notice was served , Lautro had to balance their interests against the interests of investors pending a full inquiry ; and that , having decided to serve the notice as a matter of urgency , Lautro should not be burdened with the necessity to decide whether time permitted it to receive representations before it served the notice ( post , pp. 575C–G , 576A–C , 577C–D , 579E — 580A , D — 581B , 582E ) . |
| 11 | While moral suasion had been favoured in the War ( in preference to rationing ) as a means of restricting domestic demand , and had for a time been partially successful , as peace returned it lost much of its impact . |
| 12 | Inevitably , as capitalism developed it made sense to introduce more machinery , to move to a division of labour and to a conveyor-belt system of production . |
| 13 | Clear sunny day followed upon clear sunny day , and when rain fell it fell at night to scent the dawn with the evocative fragrances of damp lavender and box . |
| 14 | As unemployment receded it left behind the problem of the Distressed Areas whose situation often worsened as the general employment position improved . |
| 15 | As darkness intensified it seemed to grow . |