Example sentences of "[art] river [noun prp] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The boat was mooring up on the River Severn when it rolled over , trapping two of them underwater .
2 The crime for which Jean Campbell was charged was one of wilful murder of her own three-year old child by throwing it over the Old Bridge in Glasgow into the River Clyde where it drowned .
3 These six streets formed almost a straight line , but from the medieval stone bridge , still having the old ford on the Fisherton side , the road curved to the Iron Bridge which crossed one of the branches of the River Avon as it flowed out from Water Lane .
4 Newcastle Emlyn Castle was built in approximately 1240 within a loop on the River Teifi and it saw action in 1648 when it was blown up by Cromwell 's men .
5 Riverside conditions such as that , must have continued to exist for a very long time , for when the Romans arrived and established — about A.D.47 — a settlement astride the River Fleet where it ran into the north bank of the River Thames , the River Fleet was about two hundred yards wide at that junction .
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