Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pushed back her hair where it had slipped from the bandanna , then tried to shrug off the tension with a sigh . |
| 2 | The brigade that it faced had been forced to give ground . |
| 3 | By fortunate chance , often a major factor in war , Hawke , on the afternoon of 16 November , learned from a victualling ship which was returning empty from taking supplies to the blockading force that it had sighted the French fleet the previous day . |
| 4 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 5 | The government 's announcement this spring that it planned to phase in the seventeen and a half per cent tax over twelve months brought pensioners out onto the streets . |
| 6 | As it was , RTD received far less investment than it needed to improve reception . |
| 7 | And he said Eventually with ropes and various other tackle it took seven of them to lift the piano back up again out of the gap that it had produced in the stairs and get it up the stairs . |
| 8 | It could mean that a claimant would be uncertain as to whether , on a rational basis test , an authority would apply the same meaning to a term that it had used previously , or whether it would adopt a different interpretation . |
| 9 | Dennis Bond wrote in his ‘ chronology ’ in 1639 : ‘ The 27th December there was such a wind that it did blow down divers houses and several woods . |
| 10 | ‘ Absolute horror , and then recognition that it had gone to the parents at the school for which I was responsible , and that this would inevitably result in the headmaster being approached by some parents objecting to having their child in a school with a warden like this . |
| 11 | By by the third Summer I think it had outlived its usefulness and it had become much more like a a mini-goose fair . |
| 12 | ‘ He had landed bang in the middle of the roof and it had caved in . |
| 13 | When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb . |
| 14 | The Tory coal rebels are demanding that at least 15 collieries remain open and gave warning that the Government could face defeat if it tried to push through proposals that were significantly out of line with the report of the Commons industry select committee earlier this year . |
| 15 | It could have been a much , much better album if it had received better technical production , ’ he says . |
| 16 | They were both then hauled through the treacherous water to the boat , but while paddling for the shore , the current seized the boat and it capsized throwing everyone into the water . |
| 17 | For Gandhi , religion is equivalent to helping the helpless , and given the choice between ‘ counting beads or turning the wheel ’ , he would choose the wheel if it meant alleviating poverty and starvation . |
| 18 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 19 | He was deathly pale and obviously still in the first shock of grief but it had taken him differently . |
| 20 | The idea that drinking nablabs was a seriously smart thing to do ant that hordes or women would subsequently fall at one 's feet probably looked great on a storyboard but it failed to impress the punters . |
| 21 | The committee was divided over whether or not to proceed with the march but it agreed to send a delegation to Derry to consult the local people ; this meeting began on the evening of Friday 4 October and went on until 1 a.m. on Saturday . |
| 22 | A shot in the dark but it had struck a target . |
| 23 | He hung his biggest cage above the library entrance but it kept falling down , capturing the Headmaster . |
| 24 | The Commonwealth Tournament , which includes sides from Canada , Australia and New Zealand , takes place on a four-year cycle , and Britain has not lifted the trophy since it lasted hosted the event , at Ganton , in 1975 . |
| 25 | The General Secretary of the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen wrote to the Home Secretary arguing that the growth of fascism created a threat to organized labour since it had led elsewhere to the suppression and murder of trade unionists . |
| 26 | The pupils of this generation of sociologists are people like Howard Becker and Erving Goffman , and it was their work in the 1960s that gave a new lease of life to ethnographic research after it had fallen into some disuse , in British sociology at least , in the 1950s . |
| 27 | Layfield ( 1976 ) criticised this confusion and said that the centre must make up its mind whether it wanted to adopt a centralist or localist view . |
| 28 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 29 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 30 | Prospects were bleak a year ago at Thornaby Impasse after it failed to secure funding . |