Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The work was heart-breaking because of the shortage of homes and it showed that many old people were living in distress . |
| 2 | The board agreed to Crocker 's demands because it believed that the bank was well managed , and because it knew that the Midland did not have the management strength to tackle retail banking in an entirely alien environment . |
| 3 | A judge at Darlington County Court also ordered Finnegan to pay £2,400 in arrears after it emerged that no rent had been paid since July last year . |
| 4 | He looked tired and drawn , and for a moment , she told herself there was a look of pleasure in his eyes before it vanished and he reached out to prevent the door closing . |
| 5 | The BBC was forced to drop an independently produced film for Arena on lorry drivers when it emerged that it was partly funded by a hauliers ' association . |
| 6 | ‘ No , this he threw back into the bushes when it snapped and turned in his hand . |
| 7 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 8 | As to the dock company , he pointed out that no nuisance was alleged to emanate directly from its premises , that other traffic besides heavy goods vehicles uses Medway and Bridge Roads on port business and that the dock company could only be liable for any nuisance caused by the fourth or fifth defendants if it aided and abetted it . |
| 9 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 10 | A stricter interpretation , however , is that the company would be entitled not to prepare group accounts if it obtained and published the auditors ’ report required by s 248(3) ( which confirms that the company is so entitled ) but it is not otherwise . |
| 11 | It concerned a contract to provide a made-to-measure set of teeth and it arose because they did not fit . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 13 | One person spent illicit hours at Saatchi 's designing our logo ; WTN allowed a lot of things to go through the system — printing , photocopying , artwork ; Gina got the entire staff of her office converted to the cause within weeks and it seemed that everyone else had done the same : soon members ' colleagues , friends and relatives were all helping out . |
| 14 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 15 | But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building . |
| 16 | The rock was in just three pieces when it arrived and needed to be hammered into the correct sizes for the set-up . |
| 17 | Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . |
| 18 | The failure to resolve Germany 's future added to Europe 's economic problems and it seemed that Communists in France and Italy might exploit the consequent social discontent in order to seize power . |
| 19 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 20 | Maxwell 's theory clashed with these generally accepted assumptions because it predicted that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon and also predicted , as was to be realized later , that fluctuating currents should emit a new kind of radiation , radio waves , travelling at a finite velocity through empty space . |
| 21 | PRESSURE is mounting on the Government to look at alternative means of toughening the law on Scotland 's knife thugs after it emerged that urgently-awaited legislation has been edged out of the parliamentary timetable . |
| 22 | The census of 1930 revealed the the state of affairs when it showed that more than twenty-two per cent of the population were ethnic and linguistic Germans . |
| 23 | The Proceedings of the Royal Society completely overlooked Lear 's beautiful Parrots when it decided that , ‘ The so-called Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains ’ was ‘ by far the most accurately illustrated work on foreign ornithology that had been issued up to that period . ’ |
| 24 | It also presented him with an interesting little self-discussion about his future prospects because it came when he was on the cusp between low-key acting roles and moderate fame . |
| 25 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 26 | The burden inevitably fell mainly on the mothers and it seemed that their loneliness could at least be lessened if they had a regular opportunity to share their experiences . |
| 27 | Responding to the absence of clearer guidelines on exchange rates , Bérégovoy told reporters that it indicated that current parities suited all G-7 partners . |
| 28 | Anyway , ’ he went on , ‘ I made some further enquiries and it transpired that Len had been convicted on a drink-driving offence and had lost his driving licence . |
| 29 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 30 | The one I selected guaranteed 10 minutes of power backup , but I found it could run for over 20 minutes before it signalled that it was out of storage capacity . |