Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Mordauntt v. British Oil & Cake Mills Ltd. ( 1910 K.B. ) the seller was told of the sub-sale by the buyer only after it had been made . |
| 2 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 3 | She had changed into a loose gauzy nightdress and released her hair so that it fell , witch-like , over her shoulders . |
| 4 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 5 | The tears were moistening her hair so that it clung to her cheeks , and they did n't look like stopping . |
| 6 | A cool little breeze was blowing , and she shivered as it ran playfully over her heated skin and ruffled the long strands of her silvery hair so that it spilled like spun gold down her back , tangling with the lace . |
| 7 | Rescuing a piece of the frill from the dress , Ellie cut it to the shape she wanted , attached it with pins to the back of the headband , laid it down , picked up Terry 's brush , backcombed the other girl 's hair so that it stood further out from her head , giving a similarity of the style she thought she should have , carefully arranged the head-dress , and turned Terry back to the mirror . |
| 8 | He muttered something unrepeatable under his breath and wiped an exhausted hand upwards over his forehead , a distraught gesture which ruffled the short dark hair so that it stood on end . |
| 9 | Leo was sitting at the kitchen table , his large frame almost dwarfing the little wooden chair , arms folded across his massive chest so that it pulled the material of his shirt impossibly tight . |
| 10 | She watched him nervously and then he casually stretched up and removed his damp shirt so that it took all her powers , her resolutions , to appear composed in sight of his taut , powerful torso . |
| 11 | But Mexico got this support only because it had sorted out its economy . |
| 12 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 13 | Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner . |
| 14 | Her hair had been flattened by the storm so that it made Trent think of a squashed astrakan hat . |
| 15 | Two decades later , after the clearer recognition of the distinction between insulin dependent and non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus , Neel modified his hypothesis so that it related specifically to non-insulin dependent diabetes . |
| 16 | A picture of the American family began to be glimpsed as a super-mobile group that could get together to grill a hamburger only if it drove to the appointment . |
| 17 | But they put their foot down when it came to maths and they caught me grappling with the colour scheme of a kestrel . |
| 18 | ‘ My goodness me , was it really ? ’ he said laying on the Scottish accent so that it sounded more like Scotch by absorption rather than birth . |
| 19 | Pike based his appeal on the contention that he had fed the horse properly but it had n't absorbed it . |
| 20 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 21 | Instead I put my head to one side so that it rested against the cold glass of the window , closed my eyes and let my mouth hang open a little . |
| 22 | He followed the bomber down until it dived into the sea off Filfla , three survivors being seen in the water . |
| 23 | And the third tells you that it was Isaac Newton who wrote this equation down because it matched what happened every time he played billiards or threw apples around . |
| 24 | She ran a hand over her hair , arranged the shawl so that it covered both her and the baby , and went out with her long resolute stride ; she had recovered quickly from this birth . |
| 25 | There was intense poverty in it , especially during some periods , and there were the tensions that were inevitable where the old system of dependence on master or squire had retained its force long after it had lost its relevance and many of its benefits . |
| 26 | Although there was a break in the snowfall , the wind still blew fiercely from the north , moaning round the house and whipping up the fallen snow so that it skimmed across the fields like fine powder , piling up in deep drifts where its progress was interrupted by hedgerows . |
| 27 | Then he moved the black rook so that it sat solidly behind the white bishop , attacking it in response despite the presence of the white queen three squares behind the bishop . |
| 28 | He shook his head , his hair catching the light so that it gleamed with a blue fire . |
| 29 | A 15 ml bolus of 0.1 N hydrochloric acid ( HCl ) was instilled into the oesophagus using the proximal port of the manometry catheter so that it arrived at cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 30 | The second set of compulsory powers were not to become operative until the ‘ second appointed day ’ and were to be brought into effect only if it appeared ‘ that it is necessary in the public interest to enable the commission to obtain authority for the compulsory acquisition of land by a simplified procedure ’ . |