Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This law was widely criticised as racist because it effectively barred entry from the so-called new Commonwealth while allowing continued emigration from the predominantly white old Commonwealth countries . |
| 2 | General Aoun 's ‘ war of liberation ’ against Syria served the Christian cause because it effectively postponed discussion of the reforms which Muslims believe are essential if their numbers are to be fairly represented in a future government . |
| 3 | In a few cases , such as steel , it effectively coordinated expansion plans . |
| 4 | It only made sense to put tea back a bit . |
| 5 | The significance of his gearless pedestal has not yet been fully realised but it so influenced engineer 's thinking that solar powered lights are feasible even in the higher ranges . |
| 6 | It obviously upset Charman and after the sacking he realised the strain it had put on his friendship with Gedge . |
| 7 | On the morning of 8 May , Ciparis had been waiting as usual for his breakfast to be brought to him , when it suddenly grew dark , and immediately afterwards , hot air laden with ashes began to come through the grating over the door . |
| 8 | Hurricane Iniki headed 100 miles north for the main Hawaiian resort of Oahu — where it killed a 15-year-old boy — before it suddenly switched course for Kauai . |
| 9 | It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history . |
| 10 | Iraqi possession of the islands would afford it greatly increased access to the Gulf . |
| 11 | It just added fuel to the fire . |
| 12 | It just went pwooooh and shattered glass everywhere . |
| 13 | It just went Crash ! and shot off into fifteen different pieces . |
| 14 | Du n no it just went click . |
| 15 | And it just went poof ! |
| 16 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 17 | The geese seemed driven off their heads with ice as the nights became a vast gallery of frozen stars , the air so stiff it scarcely yielded breath . |
| 18 | Towards the end of 1976 the IDA selected a site in Lough Beg for which it already had outline planning permission for dumping . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , I considered most carefully what might be the most opportune occasion to bring the matter up with him ; for although I would not for one moment , as I say , suspect Mr Farraday of inconsistency , it nevertheless made sense not to broach the topic when he was preoccupied or distracted . |
| 20 | The only sensible response to this , Neil decided ruefully , was to keep hold of the cane , and continue to threaten the bully with it , and for a very short space of time they circled around one another — neither man , it soon became plain , really wishing to do more than threaten . |
| 21 | If this policy was genuine , it soon gave way to a much wider attack which meant that no religious order survived in England after 1540 . |
| 22 | Last week , at the same time as its announcement of early shipments of the OSF-derived DCE/SVR4 , see above , it finally went public . |
| 23 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 24 | At the same time the West German government stated its suspicions that the Chilean government was concealing deeds occurring in the colony and that it thus shared responsibility for " the reported tortures , maltreatment and denial of personal liberties " said to be taking place there . |
| 25 | It thus became part of the local heritage and continued as a source of inspiration . |
| 26 | It thus became rape to have intercourse with a woman who was insensible through drink . |
| 27 | When Paula used that tone it usually meant trouble . |
| 28 | Army service offered poor living conditions , low pay and severe discipline ; but at least it usually gave security against starvation . |
| 29 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 30 | By late Tudor times it had become a prosperous wool-producing centre , and had a thriving tannery , but after the civil wars , during which it housed a small Parliamentary garrison , it gradually declined inactivity and status . |