Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [subord] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 2 | This had been the story that he 'd used when it had n't seemed so serious , and it was the story that he was sticking with now . |
| 3 | Briefly put , the law is now back to what Parliament had intended when it enacted the Act of 1906 — but stronger and clearer than it was then . ’ |
| 4 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 5 | The second hand had stopped where it had met the pin inserted near the 55-second mark . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 7 | His plaster had been changed , and he had written whilst it dried . |
| 8 | He 'd caught a glimpse of the two of them reflected in the hall mirror and his heart had lurched because it looked as if he was propping up a corpse . |
| 9 | Residents in nearby villages had watched as it plummeted to the ground , frighteningly near their homes . |
| 10 | Johnson also read a little — in his room he had works by his erstwhile host Lord Monboddo , and Laurence Sterne 's Sermons of Mr Yorick ( interestingly , Boswell does not give the full title , merely calling it Sermons , a deference perhaps to the scandal the book had caused when it appeared in 1760 ) . |
| 11 | Cardinal Tisserant suddenly announced that further voting on religious liberty would be postponed until the next session , claiming the document now before the Council was so different from what had gone before it needed to be debated all over again . |
| 12 | Every bloody boat had waved as it crossed the bar . |
| 13 | Cupid , which is moving its head office from Accrington to Blackburn , Lancashire , said it needed the cash to reduce borrowings which had increased since it took over the Youngs formal wear business last year . |
| 14 | I was paid good money for 3½ years to do something about the problems of North Shields and a particular component of doing something was describing what things were like , giving an account of how they had come to be like this , and attempting to understand why the process had happened as it had . |
| 15 | This was n't supposed to happen — but then , nothing today had happened as it had been supposed to . |
| 16 | In Stenhouse Australia Ltd v Phillips [ 1974 ] AC 391 the restraint of trade clause was part of an agreement made between the parties after employment had ceased as it had been in Wyatt 's case . |
| 17 | He had briefly been in the Army but had left when it became clear that he would not get commissioned . |
| 18 | " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder . |
| 19 | Faldo , who had holed a motorway of putts in the final round , holed yet another on that green , up went his arms in a triumphant ‘ V ’ and an Augustan decade had ended as it had begun , with a European as Master . |
| 20 | It had survived because it had got a metallic thread running through it . |
| 21 | The clothing industry , including flax , had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia . |