Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When that ‘ civilised ’ society realised that science creates problems as well as solving them , it gladly turned to space-gods and their companions . |
| 2 | It rather appeared to be a slight but inconsistent preference for mucosal IgG1 production also in Crohn 's disease . |
| 3 | Despite valiant attempts to mount a large multi-media show to mark Robert Adam 's bicentenary in London and Edinburgh this year , it eventually fell to the latter city to honour the great designer with a group of exhibitions during its recent Festival . |
| 4 | It eventually led to Civil War . |
| 5 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 6 | Er ploughmen and horsemen were the elite of farm workers and the sons would could only aspire to do what they did and And er eventually I suspect it got to be a little more organized and er they had these little games of of ploughing matches , maybe in a rudimentary farm to begin with , but it eventually came to be as we see it today , over a long period of time . |
| 7 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 8 | When Kitty said ‘ Oh , she wo n't really do that , ’ in an exasperated voice , it only added to his mystification . |
| 9 | Mike Nichols stated that one of his ambitions behind the movie was ‘ to stop the Los Angelesisation of America ’ , although it only added to the Los Angelesisation of American movies . |
| 10 | It only added to the team Renault-Williams ' total embarrassment at carelessly letting him go at the peak of his box office appeal and pulling power . |
| 11 | There was no way they could avoid touching , and it only added to her torment of mind and spirit . |
| 12 | He had most of the presents and all the adults to himself , and it only came to an end for him when he was very sick late in the morning , but whether from too much excitement or too many sweets , nobody could tell . |
| 13 | We papered the walls white and put up a border : with curtains and a lampshade to match , it only came to around £50 . |
| 14 | It only came to light today . ’ |
| 15 | I mean I walk around the town and I see a factory or a shop or a house , it only got to be empty about a week and all the windows are smashed . |
| 16 | It only needed to be true enough of the time . |
| 17 | And it only needed to be cut once a year . |
| 18 | The house was no longer papa 's property , although she still held the key ; it rightly belonged to Craig , just as Summer Lodge did . |
| 19 | ‘ It obviously belonged to your family , and I 'd like to return it . ’ |
| 20 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 21 | ‘ It suddenly came to me what they had done . |
| 22 | It suddenly came to her … the hidden meaning in her thought when they 'd left Forster taking up his position in ambush . |
| 23 | I put on the dress and it suddenly came to life . |
| 24 | It suddenly came to me . |
| 25 | She was sipping the last of her coffee , however , when it suddenly came to her just how much Ven had been in her thoughts since she had awakened , also how very much she wanted to see him again ! |
| 26 | Two blocks away from the house of her childhood it suddenly occurred to her that her mother might have left , that there might be strangers in the hallway , a different set of curtains hanging at the windows ; her father 's study might have been turned into a playroom for a new generation of North Oxford children , so different from herself in her prim Clark 's T-bar sandals that she would not be able to recognise her own infancy in theirs . |
| 27 | ‘ It suddenly occurred to me , ’ he says looking back , ‘ what if something serious happens there , or even a hint of something . |
| 28 | It suddenly occurred to them that he had not moved a muscle since they came in . |
| 29 | Then it suddenly occurred to one of the party that these must be the first set of revolving doors Hannah had ever encountered , so he leaned forward and set them moving . |
| 30 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |