Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a surprise move , NEC Corp has approached Convex Computer Corp and proposed that it market the Convex C3 minisupercomputers in Japan to plug the gap below its own SX3 supercomputers . |
| 2 | Straining away from him , gasping with tortured gratification , she found that it seemed the most natural thing in the world to her when she was swept up in his arms and carried through into the bedroom , to be laid gently down on the soft duvet . |
| 3 | Although he broke his collar bone and fractured his skull , he was saved from fatal injuries because his body was limp and simply bounced when it hit the tarmac . |
| 4 | It remains true that , apart from the foral provinces , government became more effective , defined , and concentrated as it approached the subject . |
| 5 | As well as candles , the company provided stoves and lanterns for troops in the Crimean war , Rangoon oil for lubricating rifles , and the Motorine oil which Rolls-Royce used when it won the Isle of Man TT race in 1906 . |
| 6 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 7 | Restriction analysis of the rescued plasmid revealed that it had the expected structure . |
| 8 | Resisters argued that it opened the way for a return to prewar politics . |
| 9 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 10 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 11 | It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " . |
| 12 | At first he thought that he had discovered a new particle , but then an astrophysicist friend of one of Alvarez 's colleagues recognised that it had the characteristics of proton-deuteron fusion — pd fusion-catalysed by a muon . |
| 13 | Commentators noted that it echoed the earlier document in its advocacy of social justice linked with the free operation of the market . |
| 14 | Meh'Lindi reached into the trunk and lifted out a small tentacle , which squirmed as it left the stasis-field . |
| 15 | It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river . |
| 16 | We were getting more mileage out of an asset we already owned and it gave the business a wider base to cope with fluctuations in any part of it . |
| 17 | It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person |
| 18 | The proposed quota and duty system was strongly criticized by the Latin American producer countries , which claimed that it violated the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 19 | The committee claimed that it had the support of 90 per cent of the area 's population and noted that representatives of the IDA , IIRS , AFF , Raybestos and the trade unions did not attend , despite being invited . |
| 20 | The Board claimed that it owned the land by virtue of a private Act of Parliament , the British Railways Act 1968 . |
| 21 | The treaty was denounced by Israel , which claimed that it marked the virtual annexation of Lebanon by Syria . |
| 22 | His observational sample of prisoner interviews , although small , had found the PACE codes of practice were followed to the letter and he argued this showed that it required the sanction of the law to effect changes in interview and interrogation techniques . |
| 23 | The Ministry of Defence commented that it welcomed the US announcement as an attempt to elicit a response from areas where there was a risk of nuclear proliferation . |
| 24 | What he discovered was that the G cell turned when it met the axons of cells A1 and A2 , whereas C turned and followed two other pioneer cells , P1 and P2 . |
| 25 | And eventually in exasperation the bird flew a short way down the beach and picked up a small stone in its beak and then it returned and it bashed the shell repeatedly until it cracked it open and it was able to get at the contents inside . |
| 26 | Tolby flinched as it touched the skin . |
| 27 | In the United States the Supreme Court in Marbury v Madison ( 1803 ) 1 Cranch 137 , decided that it had the power to declare both the acts of Congress and of the President to be unconstitutional . |
| 28 | One at least of these has for certain survived and it includes the 1916 drawing of the course reproduced in this publication . |
| 29 | It worked because it offered the combination of style and leisure which more refined sensibilities found coarsened in Brighton . |
| 30 | It was travelling fast and wobbled as it hit the bumpy piece of road under the railway bridge . |