Example sentences of "it [vb past] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then it got that it blew over did n't it ? |
| 2 | It asked that they turn in their " heavy and medium-calibre weapons and ammunition " no later than April 30 . |
| 3 | Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 4 | Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m . |
| 5 | The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " . |
| 6 | After a comparative lull in activity in early 1989 [ see p. 37587 ] the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA — Basque Homeland and Liberty ) stepped up its campaign of violence when on Aug. 13 , 1990 , it announced that it had planted bombs , scheduled to explode within the next fortnight , on three railway lines out of Madrid . |
| 7 | It reported that I had an 80C88 CPU , CGA screen and 512Kb of RAM , but then another figure which seemed impossible showed up . |
| 8 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |
| 9 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 10 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 11 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 12 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 13 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 14 | It transpired that she had also been one of a party at the Hall the same day . |
| 15 | Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist . |
| 16 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 17 | When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices . |
| 18 | In my case , I think it helped that I had a modest aptitude for football . |
| 19 | It signified that he had hurt her . |
| 20 | ‘ So it befell that he read Goethe 's The Sorrows of Young Werther and discovered the nature of love . |
| 21 | Storage Technology Corp declined to comment on market rumours that its Iceberg high-speed disk array is about to be completed : it noted that it had made no new statements on Iceberg 's progress since last November when it said that beta site testing will extend into the second half of the current year . |
| 22 | It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " . |
| 23 | It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 . |
| 24 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 25 | It seemed that they had exceeded his instructions . |
| 26 | The kids had been sent to her mother 's house , and now it seemed that they had a new surrogate father . |
| 27 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 28 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 29 | It seemed that they saw straight into her soul . |
| 30 | NOT SO LONG AGO it seemed that we had very nearly lost our fairy tale beasts . |