Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 2 | We approached it cautiously , in case the cops had it staked out . |
| 3 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 4 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 5 | An early goal by the visitors made it look as though we were heading for our nineteenth League defeat of the season , but thanks to my inspirational coaching from the touchline , new boy Kev Knowles levelled the score on the stroke of half-time . |
| 6 | But they failed to reduce the size sufficiently and ended up with a prototype that could n't record anything — so the engineers used it to play their favourite music cassettes while they worked . |
| 7 | Often the tensions made it appear as though there was a ring of invisible men sitting outside the circle of women , a silent audience whose approval we often still needed . |
| 8 | As the days passed it became clear to Ned 's family that he was drifting away from them and his strange affair with the stone was fast turning into a deep and meaningful relationship ! |
| 9 | A hideously powerful blow on one of the boards sent it splintered and whirling into the basement . |
| 10 | Maturity of outlook over the years led it to have a capacity for assuming an independent role , based on its own inherent values . |
| 11 | As the years passed it became more and more obvious that the BDDA lacked a central office . |
| 12 | There was one , but the Austrians had it reduced in size because they believed that it might be used as an observation tower by the recalcitrant Milanese . |
| 13 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 14 | The Americans assumed it meant that Saddam was there . |
| 15 | While the councillors felt it appropriate that the Church Hall should be put to some use they objected to the proposal for a function room and made the following points : |
| 16 | ‘ The lawyers got it speeded up . |
| 17 | For the doctors agreed it did not hurt a baby to cry ; it only hurts grown-ups to listen to him . |
| 18 | The doll had pins piercing the location of the heart when the police found it lying on the victim 's naked body . |
| 19 | Dalgliesh had been left with an uneasy feeling that neither case was as straightforward as the reports made it appear , but certainly there was no prima facie evidence of foul play in connection with either of the two deaths . |
| 20 | Yet the photographs proved it had not stopped her pursuing her curiosity to Oxford . |
| 21 | When Neil Kinnock complained that soldiers were forced to leave their guts on Goose Green to show Mrs Thatcher had guts of her own , the Tories used it to mount a massive propaganda campaign against him . |
| 22 | He replied that on the facts stated it appeared that the testator wanted by trust to release Seius from all liability to that debt . |