Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Defence denied it had been hit in a missile exercise . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Agriculture said it believed hemp , which can grow as high as 15ft , would be a minority crop and would not become a common feature of Britain 's rural landscape . |
| 4 | The Department of Agriculture said it had no comment to make because the closure was a private decision by the abattoir owners . |
| 5 | Tonight the Ministry of Agriculture said it sympathised with the bee keepers , but compensation would n't be paid . |
| 6 | I am not sure why this quarter was called ‘ Chinese ’ except that perhaps its apartness from the regular secular and religious life of Salamanca made it seem like another country , and a far-off , exotic one at that . |
| 7 | The record of the Alliance in power was one of pragmatism , perhaps not very different from that of labour had it retained control . |
| 8 | What kind of circulation did it have ? |
| 9 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 10 | Gazza recently put up £1,500 of his own money to get Spurs ' hospital radio service back on air when shortage of funds forced it to close down . |
| 11 | On the contrary , there is much to suggest that , in this election , Labour moved too far away from its traditional base ; that its attempts at reassuring those outside its ‘ natural ’ core of supporters meant it did too little to mobilise support among those who would benefit from its policies . |
| 12 | The Royal Bank of Scotland said it had pulled out because it saw no continuing need for its participation . |
| 13 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 14 | But the Bank of England signalled it wants to keep base rates held at 101/2 p.c . |
| 15 | In response , the Bank of England said it did not accept the conclusions the committee had drawn from the Bingham Report . |
| 16 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 17 | In a terse statement the board of directors said it had ‘ considered the Great Britain management set-up and individual talks will take place over the next few days before a formal announcement is made ’ . |
| 18 | Morland 's board of directors said it considered the offer inadequate and recommended shareholders took no action . |
| 19 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 20 | The continuing failure of Labour to present a distinctive alternative to the Tories was indicated strikingly in the opinion poll finding that 40 per cent of electors believed it made no difference which party was in power . |
| 21 | Announcing its decision , the Department of Environment said it had responded to three main criticisms : i ) the register would have listed all potential , not necessarily actual , contaminated sites , since it included all locations where specified industries had been sited ; ii ) sites would not be removed from the register , even if after clean-up ; iii ) there was no specific provision for determining who should bear the liability , and the costs , of the clean-up . |
| 22 | There were , though , negative comments : 17% of respondents thought it looked extravagant and was too glossy . |
| 23 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 24 | In the eighteenth century the rise of towns enabled it to increase . |
| 25 | However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative . |
| 26 | A spokeswoman for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said it had a network of volunteers ‘ monitoring the situation ’ throughout the province . |
| 27 | It tried to fasten on innocuous bits of bark and leaf , but the scourge of curiosity forced it to leave them behind . |
| 28 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |
| 29 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 30 | Well I think like Lucy said it has made you think about the really . |