Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first rule of surviving a disaster , I had written , was to accept that it had happened and make the best of what was left . |
| 2 | So erm I 'm you kn I do n't propose to do that again because I would n't er I would n't arrange a speaker if we had a full table show but it 's nice to know that it did work out because we were , I was forced into a corner a little bit erm and I think it was worth it because we as I say I 've waited a long time for Danny and he was well worth listening to , I can listen to Danny for hours because he he just speaks and , and tells you about his fish , I 'm , I 'm very very fond of listening to Danny cos I think he gives a good talk . |
| 3 | If one were subsequently to receive a report that when the event occurred , the sun had set , one would be able to infer that it had taken place at exactly 12.00 midnight . |
| 4 | It was a pleasure to discover that it had escaped the sort of wholesale restoration so commonly carried out in the earlier part of this century . |
| 5 | Though when the meal was ended and they went outside it was to discover that it had begun to drizzle . |
| 6 | He went into the college hall , and registered himself for matriculation among a rowdy assembly of students younger than himself ; and came out into the street to find that it had started to rain . |
| 7 | Asked to explain why he had burst into the bedroom of his landlady 's attractive teenage daughter , Tom away the towel with which she was drying herself and started a close fingertip search of her backside , Berkas explained that he had left a valuable foreign stamp soaking in the bath and returned to find that it had disappeared . |
| 8 | I feared to find that it had changed , as many had told me , beyond recognition . |
| 9 | McNeill was reluctant to accept because it meant asking the club for 14 tickets . |
| 10 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 11 | The legislation was welcomed by the Prime Minister , but Walesa was said to object that it failed to go far enough in changing the 1952 Stalinist constitution . |
| 12 | The legislation was welcomed by the Prime Minister , but Walesa was said to object that it failed to go far enough in changing the 1952 Stalinist constitution . |
| 13 | But , on balance , the government seemed able to claim that it had turned the tide , albeit with the aid of £2 billions from North Sea oil to swing the balance into surplus . |
| 14 | The first was the assumption that a ‘ form of words ’ which did not amend the text of the Treaty would be sufficient for the Danish Government to be able to claim that it had satisfied the wishes of the people as expressed in the referendum . |
| 15 | The Bolivian Workers ' Centre ( COB ) , the main union confederation , contacted the Spanish news agency EFE on March 9 to report that it had received communiqués from the Bolivarián Military Movement ( MMB ) , a dissident grouping within the military , which claimed that " discontented " elements within the army were willing to follow the example of fellow officers in Venezuela [ for Venezuela coup attempt see pp. 38759-60 ] to stem corruption in the government and the higher echelons of the armed forces . |
| 16 | Camille had to agree that it did seem preposterous that anybody they had known should be dead . |
| 17 | The Labour Party seemed to sense that it had gone too far in criticism of the police , perhaps in response to the far-left , middle-class activists of sociological inclination , and had been too tender towards violent criminals and other deviants . |
| 18 | The United Kingdom , Belgium and Greece all took the view that Community law did not limit the competence of each state under public international law to define as it thought fit the conditions upon which it granted to a vessel the right to fly its flag . |
| 19 | But he did n't want to go if it meant leaving Kate behind . |
| 20 | And then she 'd peep her head under the curtain to see if it had gone |
| 21 | Mildred held out her arm to see if it had begun to reappear but it had n't . |
| 22 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 23 | In a speech to representatives of the Moscow gentry in March 1856 he announced that it was better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait until it began to abolish itself from below . |
| 24 | No wonder the Government of the day tried to conceal that it had spent public money on bringing some dotty lady down from her high table to tell us what it is to want what we want . |
| 25 | Before that she could not bear to leave because it meant leaving Brian behind . |
| 26 | But it was surely too much to hope that it had taught the father a permanent lesson . |
| 27 | Were she to believe that it did matter , she would be finished . |
| 28 | It is hard to believe that it intended to withhold that protection in all cases where a jury might think that the place in question was not necessary or desirable or where the authorities could not by evidence justify their policies to a jury 's satisfaction . |
| 29 | It is easy to forget that it had to start somewhere . |
| 30 | I know Fran Cotton has a business to run but it did spoil the World Cup celebrations for many . |