Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It expressly stated that |
| 2 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 3 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 4 | The feel was ‘ Get to Manchester and get signed ’ although it rarely worked that way . |
| 5 | And to women it rarely gave any opportunity at all . |
| 6 | This is not to say that practice was unsatisfactory : rather that it was highly variable and that it mostly had little to do with PNP , despite the Authority 's intentions and despite its being written into the job specifications of PNP appointees . |
| 7 | It effectively halted all plans to transport aid from the port , although the EPLF 's aid arm , the Eritrean Relief Association , asked for shipments to be resumed under its control . |
| 8 | It eventually absorbed these activities into its own growth and development . |
| 9 | Through the book Theatre of the empire of Great Britaine by John Speed [ q.v. ] ( 1612 ) it eventually provided several generations of British and foreign map-users with their cartographic image of central and southern Ireland . |
| 10 | It only took this one slight pressure when he was least expecting it and he came loose . |
| 11 | It only took half a second to realize that I was not on camera but had strolled into a genuine ‘ stick-up ’ . |
| 12 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh my God — it only needed that . |
| 14 | And occasionally , as now , it so happened that duty and pleasure would fall together in a sweet coincidence ; and from Parson 's Pleasure , after dutifully forbidding Lewis to linger more than a couple of hours or so , Morse himself departed . |
| 15 | As it so happened another young scholar , one who 's life was to become inextricably bound up with the politics of Trinidad , was also just about to make the same journey . |
| 16 | This letter is incomplete in the Darlington collection , but it obviously contained much of use to Bartram whose draft reply ( in the Library of the American Philosophical Society ) dated February 1759 stated that had the postage been three times more he would not have missed it . |
| 17 | Although it clearly superseded the Five Compilations ( all previous collections now being declared null and void ) it obviously included much of the law found there . |
| 18 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 19 | As the music powered into focus , it suddenly seemed much more than a mere backdrop for Morrissey 's lyrical diatribes . |
| 20 | I mean , when we was in opposition , if er , if we had a Westminster crisis in Lincolnshire and it suddenly kicked all the conservatives off , we would have been able to come up with an alternative budget to manage this county . |
| 21 | Only the vaguest estimates of numbers were available to HQ 5 Corps , when it suddenly found all these heterogeneous groups in its charge . |
| 22 | The plane was flying the Travolta family from Florida to Maine when it suddenly lost all its electrical instruments . |
| 23 | It merely seemed that way yesterday . |
| 24 | To say that the Crown had the right of appointment is to say only that it had at least the possibility of a voice , not that it necessarily exercised any real right of selection . |
| 25 | It just seemed such a stupid question that 's all . |
| 26 | it just seemed that |
| 27 | week or so , it just got that bit |
| 28 | oh it just started this week , it 's not swollen |
| 29 | Oh it just happened that way . |
| 30 | it just happened that way you know the twentieth of November and there 's the nineteenth of February |