Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my great surprise and that of everyone else , I found that it meant that black holes are not completely black . |
| 2 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 3 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 4 | The bomb-shell exploded when it added that those sixty-six coupons must last for a whole year . |
| 5 | Manuel Salgado , the interim president of the Ecuadorian Congress , currently visiting Cuba , stated that it showed that " US governing circles have not modified in the least their imperial policies , which dream of a unipolar world rooted in subjugation and slavery " . |
| 6 | Some genial foreign observers claimed that it illustrated that gloomy predictions about Britain 's demise , like that of Mark Twain , were much exaggerated . |
| 7 | When pressed by the US Federal Trade Commission for an explanation they replied that it meant that the inside of the car was 700 per cent quieter than the outside . |
| 8 | He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens . |
| 9 | He soon remarried and it appears that his second wife had no qualms about sharing the bedchamber with her predecessor . |
| 10 | Woolwich paid because it calculated that it was in its commercial interest to do so . |
| 11 | Berger discovered the alpha rhythm , running at 10 cycles per second ( Hertz , or Hz ) and also discovered that it disappeared if the eyes were opened , with mental effort such as doing mental arithmetic with eyes closed , and with loud noises or painful stimuli . |
| 12 | He watched until it disappeared and then he skipped happily back down the hill . |
| 13 | but I can hardly remember what we decided but it seems that we 've now got |
| 14 | Suddenly , Labour wobbled as it appeared that the Tories might have picked a genuine winner . |
| 15 | He reached for his desk phone and then swore as it rang before he could pick it up . |
| 16 | Harvey Postlethwaite at Tyrrell felt that it did if the driver survived . |
| 17 | It stressed that it accepted that Black had nothing to do with the stolen goods or weapons found at the cottage . |
| 18 | She also knew that it meant that we could have a car when otherwise we could n't . |
| 19 | Oh at any rate , he they started rebidding and then of course it went and went and it fell and then this Mr gave up and whoever the other one was , Do n't remember who he was . |
| 20 | Rose 's hand was small and freckled and it teased and rubbed . |
| 21 | However , reports questioning Shah 's independence grew after it emerged that Irfanullah Marwat Khan , implicated in the alleged gang-rape of a close friend of the PPP leader Benazir Bhutto [ see p. 38683 ] , had been retained as an adviser to the new provincial government . |
| 22 | Bilateral negotiations between summit leaders aimed at reviving trade talks stalled over the issue of agricultural subsidies [ see pp. 38888-89 ] failed after it emerged that a breakthrough was unlikely before the French referendum in September on the Maastricht treaty or the US presidential elections in November . |
| 23 | Perhaps he had forgotten that the bell would ring or he hardly cared whether it rang or not . |
| 24 | The question then simply became whether it did or not . |
| 25 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 26 | Spike said that it looked like Hunters had attacked the craft . |
| 27 | Let me just close with some words from Matthew chapter nine in verse ten , he said that it happened that as Jesus was reclining at the table in the house behold many tax gatherers and sinners came and were dining with Jesus and his disciples , and when the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples , why is your teacher eating with the tax gatherers and sinners ? |
| 28 | The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace , a human rights monitoring group , said that it appeared that the violence had been sanctioned to frustrate opposition to the formation of a one-party state . |
| 29 | Dennis Henigan , of the Legal Action Project at the Centre to Prevent Handgun Violence , called the decision a " big victory " , and said that it showed that the Second Amendment was " no threat to reasonable gun laws " . |
| 30 | It glared and it floated and it flew like the Devil . |