Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 2 | He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day . |
| 3 | When Aston Villa forward Billy Walker scored two goals against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final of 1920 he was wearing a kit that looked like it had been designed by Yohji , styled by Gaultier and captured for posterity by Bruce Weber and his trusty box brownie . |
| 4 | There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough . |
| 5 | The strongest smell on the roof , though , was of the coke that sang as it burned in the brazier . |
| 6 | In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun . |
| 7 | It was only the events afterwards that proved that it did n't work , but they were n't clear at this time |
| 8 | She was at least ten years Cunningham 's junior , Harry judged , blonde-haired and bright-eyed with a sparkling smile ; all pert vivacity and curvaceous promise in a black woollen dress that fitted where it touched , as Barry Chipchase would undoubtedly have phrased it . |
| 9 | In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption . |
| 10 | Her previous calm gave away to terror that escalated until it threatened to overwhelm her . |
| 11 | And as in uffish thought he stood , The Jabberwock , with eyes of flame , Came whiffling through the tulgey wood , And burbled as it came ! |
| 12 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 13 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 14 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 15 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 16 | The Council also voted unanimously to request the UK government to declare a continental shelf around the Islands , and announced that it hoped to pass legislation " before Christmas " enabling it to sell exploration licences for oil and other minerals . |
| 17 | The proposed closure was confirmed just twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 18 | The closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 19 | They listened to the Black story and admitted that it had important implications . |
| 20 | Only one company questioned , who insisted on complete anonymity , had taken on an ex-headhunter into a position it had been seeking to fill , and admitted that it had been a disastrous mistake . |
| 21 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 22 | and trembled as it fed — |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He got up and went to the piano , sat on the stool and found that it revolved . |
| 27 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 28 | I followed the telephone cord and found where it went into the wall . |
| 29 | When a young boy , overcome with curiosity , stepped out and prodded the dog 's mouth with a stick , he was grabbed by the arm and hauled back roughly : and when a dog began idly sniffing the body , someone kicked out and shouted and it lurched away through the crowd . |
| 30 | 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 . |