Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a man with a family of several young children who worked at the plant saying at one of the first local public meetings I addressed that it would certainly change his mind about nuclear power if the link with leukaemia was substantiated . |
| 2 | I had the club already going , was dealing with mainly young people , and as you will know young people 's taste tends to vary quite considerably and very quickly , so I might well be very successful for so long and then if suddenly taste changed and I had n't got the ability to change with the times I realized that it would be rather precarious , so I needed a second string to my bow . |
| 3 | After reading some of the criticisms from readers in the past few months I felt that it was about time I wrote in . |
| 4 | A petition signed by 115 leading personalities , requesting the King to appoint a 1,300-1,500 member National Assembly , drew widespread opposition from the main political parties which claimed that it would drag the monarchy into politics . |
| 5 | She read her books with an intense concentration — and she learned what Johnny had to do , and of the terrible odds that were stacked against him ; for as she , in her time , moved towards the middle of July , she knew that , for Johnny , it was August ; and in one of her books she learned that it was in August , between the 8th and the 15th , that the most heavily concentrated forces of enemy bombers had been sent against the military installations , and the ports and airfields of Britain . |
| 6 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 7 | As he raised it to his lips he saw that it was brimming with drowned black insects . |
| 8 | Lord Reid thought that the multiplier of 12 years was low , but in that he differed from some of his brother judges who thought that it was high but that it should not be interfered with . |
| 9 | After the damaging Westland affair and the loss of two senior Cabinet ministers , there were even Conservatives who thought that it might be time to change the leader . |
| 10 | The National Assembly approved a new amnesty law on May 9 despite the opposition of the 39 FSLN deputies who claimed that it would " erase the crimes committed by the Somoza dictatorship " . |
| 11 | Several years ago , miso came under fire from researchers who claimed that it caused high blood-pressure , then Japan 's number-one killer . |
| 12 | ‘ It has to be the worst year of my career given the expectations I had when it started . |
| 13 | But , of course , it was n't my fault that my mother was pregnant and yet for years I felt that it was . |
| 14 | Despite these reservations she thought that it was a good film but at the same time she upheld a longstanding tradition in Socialist Worker of avoiding any discussion of what a ‘ good film ’ might be . |
| 15 | After more than ten years he decided that it was time he retrieved some of the money , so from 1921 to 1923 he put the wages of his chauffeur on Arsenal 's expense account and in 1926 charged the club £125 for hiring , over two years , a motor car . |
| 16 | The top rail is joined to the uprights by dovetail housings and to cut the mortises for the laths I found that it was best to hold the rail in the vice with blocks to pack it out and then to cut down vertically . |
| 17 | The project has now been cancelled , despite continuing support from local politicians , due both to lack of funds and studies which showed that it would operate at only 25 per cent of capacity in winter , when electricity demand is highest . |
| 18 | The visit , formally approved by the Japanese Cabinet on Aug. 25 , was fiercely opposed by right-wing nationalists who feared that it would involve pressure upon the Emperor to apologise to the Chinese people for Japan 's brutal military intervention in the country between 1931 and 1945 . |
| 19 | This met with the approval of the development officers who felt that it would be much easier to explain to potential clients and their relatives and other service-providers that it was an experimental scheme confined to one area of the borough only . |
| 20 | A huge , heavy , panelled oak door faced it , and peering through the windows I saw that it led into the mill kitchen . |
| 21 | And , secondly , company law set about the task of demonstrating that the power of corporate managers was not unlimited but was subject to checks and controls which ensured that it could not be used for the manager 's own purposes or for any other arbitrary end . |
| 22 | But I often look back and think well if was the girls who insisted that it 's time mum had a proper automatic washing machine |
| 23 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 24 | She spent her rare afternoons off visiting the sights of Paris , or lying in the Luxembourg Gardens alone , reading Dostoevsky and Sartre and Camus , and sending out contradictory messages to idle young men who wondered if it would be worth trying to pick her up . |
| 25 | The property in the car was later put into a van and found by the police who discovered that it had been stolen in the burglary . |
| 26 | The painting of the Virgin blessing Christ before the Passion by Urbino was once popular with newly-wedded couples who knelt before it and asked for a blessing on their marriage . |
| 27 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 28 | This plant has been recorded in the writings of ancient Greeks and Romans who noted that it was especially efficacious in ‘ stopping the blood of a wound inflicted by iron ’ , presumably in battle . |
| 29 | Mike Gatting presented , and in the pre-match interviews he stressed that it was very , very hot , and I swear Gatt must have lost a stone just standing out in the middle talking about the pitch . |