Example sentences of "it [vb past] in [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties .
2 Secondly , Woolwich feared that if it failed in its legal arguments it might incur penalties .
3 That led the court to hold in that judgment that , as a result of article 234 , a member state might have to apply , in its relations with the other member states , rules different from those which it applied in its relations with non-member countries , even though they were all party to the same international convention .
4 It got in it , but he has n't got any leg .
5 I represent the principle of authority and am bound to make it respected in my person : such has always been the conscious object of my relations with the working class . ’
6 Still she hesitated , wanting him to appreciate the gravity of such a revelation and the trust it revealed in her if she chose to make it .
7 It lived in their minds , their thoughts , and their daily talk , and it was contagious .
8 It disintegrated in his hands .
9 I mean , th the , the other thing is we need , we need it we need it recovered in something that 's but I mean that 's not a massive job , and we , and we , and I want the toilet trough that sort of thing .
10 To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever .
11 Moved by an ancient sentiment as she cradled the dress , so that it lolled in her arms like someone drowned , she said that she was glad she had a daughter to wear it ; and I said , politely , that I could see it must be a pleasing economy .
12 Emma 's got it framed in her bedroom .
13 Indeed , one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum .
14 Council leader John Williams said he was delighted the Labour controlled authority had finished the scheme by Easter as it promised in its manifesto .
15 It cast in him a fear so deep that he could say nothing , only stare .
16 Sarella caught his hand where it tangled in her hair .
17 The momentary confusion it caused in their reaction , meant that Satan and Baal missed their swiftly moving target by inches , as they found themselves snapping at empty air in mid-leap .
18 When Cleese split up with his co-writer and wife , the American actress Connie Booth , there was uproar — not because of the havoc it caused in his private life , but because the Great British Public was not to get any more episodes of Fawlty Towers !
19 The group claimed that AY should have discovered the alleged fraud and should not have given Alkar the clean bill of health it received in its 1987 accounts .
20 The Basque separatist organization ETA claimed responsibility on March 13 for sending five parcel bombs ( one addressed to the Interior Minister ) , one of which seriously wounded Fernando de Mateo Lage , the judge presiding over the Audienca Nacional ( the court charged with handling terrorism cases ) , when it exploded in his hands in Madrid on Feb. 27 .
21 First , it is important to look at the way in which Freud developed the idea of the super-ego , and the part it played in his theory .
22 I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame .
23 Yep , now nowadays erm they 've got the best , I mean the equipment is excellent , er it came in my time erm my predecessor 's time and it 's been carried on now and new developments have come in , erm and with , of course techniques in , not only dealing with the chemicals in , in making safe afterwards which is twice as complicated I think , you know the decontamination side , the clearing up , the protecting of the environment from toxic chemicals er which we 've all heard about in newspapers , and read reports and seen it on television , these , these accidents up and down the world .
24 Once when I was looking out the back of the palace and shots around the back and a shell hit the palace , so it came in my eyes and it hit
25 Throughout the day the old woman bathed his arm and gave him cooling drinks that tasted , so it seemed in his fever , of wild water-mint , and thymy hillsides , and red rust .
26 He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … .
27 It glistened in his fingers as he bent to study it .
28 Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia .
29 Co-productions with the Royal Opera have proved as vital for London as St Petersburg , and Gergiev was quite happy that Covent Garden 's lap of The Fiery Angel should be conducted by Sir Edward Downes ( ‘ it is clear to both of us that Prokofiev deserves what has happened , he deserved it long ago , and I 'm only glad it happened in my time ’ ) .
30 Country music was unquestionably one of the forerunners of rock'n'roll , and certainly one of its main constituents when it arrived in its recognised form .
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