Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was perfectly clear to everyone that the company could carry on enough trade to flourish only if it supplemented its income by bringing in more goods than its treaty permitted , and the smuggling trade became large enough to disturb the Spanish authorities . |
| 2 | ‘ At one time you had to box straight until it ended . |
| 3 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 4 | The others were all getting ready to go ashore when it happened . ’ |
| 5 | and she had to go home before it finished . |
| 6 | For nearly 45 years , it was unable to function properly because it became a political battleground in the Cold War . |
| 7 | Labour 's apparent shift towards PR to woo the Liberals , Ashdown 's insistence that he would allow a government to function only if it gave way to PR , all seemed to point to a deal being hatched up behind the backs of the voters to secure power for the opposition parties . |
| 8 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 9 | ‘ With a three-stroke lead it 's almost inevitable that you start to look ahead and it happened to me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 11 | Even when , as we show later , Brazil had an opportunity to do so when it invited the multinationals to establish its automobile industry , it chose not to exercise its power for fear of discouraging potential entrants . |
| 12 | After so long thinking that the reason for our kidnap had been bad feeling between Britain and Iran , and knowing that , before the Rushdie affair at least , fences had been mended , it was hard to believe now that it had all been a mirage . |
| 13 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 14 | The company is now in a regulatory climate where no objection would be made to either of its corporate investors , NEC Corp and IBM Corp , each with around 5% , greatly increasing their stakes in the company — to perhaps 25% each — but IBM has no cash to spare even if it wanted to get more involved with a company forever at the mercy of the shifting tides of French policy and NEC Corp , which two or three years ago would have jumped at the opportunity of making Bull a European and US outlet for far more of its products , faces a price war in its cash cow personal computer business back home and faces such a hard time that it has just seen its debt ratings cut — at a time when cheap capital is no longer available in Japan . |
| 15 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 16 | The shelter that Jenny had found for me was in Camden Town , not too far away , so in order not to arrive there before it got going for the evening , I dawdled a little , window-shopping . |
| 17 | Oliver wanted to go there because it had a sheltered terrace where they could sit outside , but it was too full of memories : it was the place where Rain had sat on her own while Sabine Jourdain was fighting for her life on board the Jonquil , where Tim had left behind his wallet , where Rain had first seen the pedlar . |
| 18 | Most of the grass had already been worn away by cheering trampling spectators but it was still pleasant to sit there when it caught the sun . |
| 19 | Anyone considering the venue a rather incongruous one for startling political imagery and prototype ‘ vehicles ’ for those with and without power in society ( the police on one side , immigrants and the homeless on the other ) , has obviously not got the message the Fundació has aimed to get across since it opened exactly two years ago : that it is not just about Tàpies , but has a wider and more challenging agenda . |
| 20 | It may in perfect good faith have misconstrued the provisions giving it power to act so that it failed to deal with the question remitted to it and decided some question which was not remitted to it . |
| 21 | To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection . |
| 22 | It was harder to notice exactly when it stopped , and Dyson liked to know . |
| 23 | This produces something very close to a circular argument : a local authority ‘ needs ’ to spend more because it spent more previously ! |
| 24 | His first public comment was to say dismissively that it fell ‘ well short of what would be required … |