Example sentences of "that [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage .
2 He had a large head with his hair cut right into the wood , piggy eyes and a broad flat nose that looked like it had been well punched in its day .
3 When Aston Villa forward Billy Walker scored two goals against Chelsea in the FA Cup semi-final of 1920 he was wearing a kit that looked like it had been designed by Yohji , styled by Gaultier and captured for posterity by Bruce Weber and his trusty box brownie .
4 There were a few curled-up sandwiches in a glass-fronted cabinet beneath the counter and a cheese roll that looked like it had been hewn from granite rather than baked with dough .
5 The strongest smell on the roof , though , was of the coke that sang as it burned in the brazier .
6 In Kepler 's construction of the solar system , each planet had its own melodic line associated with a changing speed that increased as it approached its closest point to the sun .
7 It was only the events afterwards that proved that it did n't work , but they were n't clear at this time
8 She was at least ten years Cunningham 's junior , Harry judged , blonde-haired and bright-eyed with a sparkling smile ; all pert vivacity and curvaceous promise in a black woollen dress that fitted where it touched , as Barry Chipchase would undoubtedly have phrased it .
9 In addition , numerical modelling of the geochemical trends indicates that within one cycle the magma may have evolved by inputs of discrete batches of primary peridotitic partial melt that fractionated as it rose and mixed with earlier magma prior to eruption .
10 Her previous calm gave away to terror that escalated until it threatened to overwhelm her .
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