Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad wasted no words and said that it was his bird in the box whereupon C … tried to brazen out the situation by saying he had found the cockbird in the garden and was taking it to the market in the morning . |
| 2 | Many of the managers we then spoke with were disenchanted with their roles and felt that it was an increasingly difficult set of tasks they had to carry out . |
| 3 | Mr Ray Sunman , the Darlington council officer who helped co-ordinate the project , said : ‘ I believe our success has influenced a great many projects that came after it . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 6 | Accordingly , Leonard investigated the connections of the dorsomedial thalamus in rats and showed that it projects to two cortical areas , one lying on the medial edge of the anterior cortex and the other on the lateral edge , in the rhinal fissure . |
| 7 | She peered at its various buttons and dials and wondered if it were possible to wreck it by unintentional mis-setting . |
| 8 | The Northern Ireland Office was shaken to its foundations and accepted that it had to curtail drastically the activities of the Provisional IRA and be seen to move against the more violent gangsters in loyalist urban districts . |
| 9 | He also took a small stone from the centre of the strange formation , and shortly after his return home , he attended a meeting with other dowsers and suggested that it might be interesting to dowse the crop circle samples . |
| 10 | BIIBA wanted a stay of execution on Fimbra 's plans and thought that it had gained such a deal when its chairman , David Palmer , met Fimbra chairman Lord Elton . |
| 11 | On Aug. 26 , Citibank blamed the Indian banking system for irregularities in its Indian operations and denied that it had " accommodated " or had been involved with those implicated in the scandal . |
| 12 | A more unlikely situation for a cinema was hard to imagine , but the driver pointed to a set of steps burrowing up between two houses and explained that it was as near as he could get in a car . |
| 13 | He pointed to the important public role occupied by universities and submitted that it was wrong that they should be immune from the general law of the land : ‘ There must be no Alsatia in England where the King 's writ does not run ’ : per Scrutton L.J . |
| 14 | One such school had immediately offered places and declared that it would abide by any access restrictions laid upon it . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | A Sotheby 's New York spokeswoman declined to say how much the company had already spent on the treasure over the last two years but acknowledged that it had been ‘ very , very expensive ’ . |
| 17 | Meredith could n't see it properly in the absence of proper street-lights and wondered if it was Tom Fearon 's Mercedes . |
| 18 | I pondered on these things and felt that it was not good … |
| 19 | erm there 'd be a bit of er an anti reaction from the villages towards that and I think that was what they worried about , and that 's why they , they adopted a more careful policy of more , more like suggesting , I E they , they introduced these mutual aid teams and suggested that it would be beneficial for the peasants to join together in these teams . |
| 20 | After the collapse of Farrow as well as of two major banks in Victoria , the state 's Labor government arranged a line of credit to support other building societies with short-term liquidity problems and announced that it would reform the state 's banking laws to improve protection for depositors . |
| 21 | However , Kovalyov was recently summoned to the local District Department of Internal Affairs and told that it had ‘ new material ’ against him . |
| 22 | Ibrahim Ghawshah , official spokesman of Hamas , rejected the PNC resolutions and said that it would " confront " the peace conference by escalating the uprising in the occupied territories , and would co-ordinate with Islamic movements to pressure Arab leaders not to attend . |
| 23 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |
| 24 | Donald Brash , the governor of the Reserve Bank , suggested that it gave scope for easing monetary controls and predicted that it would result in lower interest rates . |
| 25 | The Iraqi government offered to co-operate in return for the lifting of economic sanctions and announced that it would send a mission to New York to discuss this with the UN Security Council on March 10 . |
| 26 | So he supported reunion with Methodists and believed that it was Canute-like to oppose the ordination of women . |
| 27 | He asked them why elephants did n't ride bicycles and explained that it was because they had n't any thumbs to ring the bell with . |
| 28 | We looked at all aspects of play , we experimented in games and concluded that it is a running game , in which the player is expected to carry the ball ’ . |
| 29 | The man from the Royal Mail put up his hands and said that it , the Royal Mail , had probably made an error . |
| 30 | The first , St Joseph 's in Marton Road , had space for 200 children but objected since it is still recovering from the effects of housing another primary school following a major fire . |