Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it lowered its wings in threat posture , I took a last few shots before backing away , mindful of Valdemar 's account of the owl which left long , bloody furrows up the back of a photographer who pushed his luck too far ! |
| 2 | We followed the wall 160 ft , at which point it doubled its width and was continuing and we had no time to go further . |
| 3 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , is sinking deeper into the mire and now says it will restate its financial results for the year ended June 30 for the second time , and will amend its annual report on form 10K , because it now finds that it overstated its turnover . |
| 4 | It pricked his curiosity but he shook his head , saying , ‘ Ah — I have to be away to Dublin . ’ |
| 5 | It pinned her sleeves to her side and cuffed both cheeks ; somehow it blew all the badness away and out of her and she was safe . |
| 6 | One of the maids yelped as it pinned her skirt to a cupboard . |
| 7 | For a moment she thought it shared her doubts ; there was a hint of a fumble as it doubled its hind legs under for the leap . |
| 8 | BZW 's cheapest option — pulling out of Tokyo — is barely feasible , given that it got its TSE membership only last November after much huffing and puffing from Margaret Thatcher when she was prime minister . |
| 9 | And it got its head trod in . |
| 10 | There will be a brief insight into the history of the company and how it got its name . |
| 11 | How it got its name is not a documented fact , but it is believed to have come about when the tailors of London congregated at the Haymarket Theatre to protest about a play called The Tailors : A Tragedy For Warm Weather . |
| 12 | " I do n't know how it got its name , no , " replied the older boy smiling patiently , " but no doubt some book-reading bore is about to inform me . " |
| 13 | She could see where it got its name . |
| 14 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 15 | " It got me tons of lifts on the way here . |
| 16 | It got my interest going and I went off to Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Mid-Wales and even down to Bristol . |
| 17 | Steve , I always said to Steven if we have a kid I said I hope it looks like me I said but I hope it got your temperament come out exactly wrong . |
| 18 | It revealed their inexperience , captain Wessels admitted , and showed them that standards in Test cricket were very high . |
| 19 | The causal chain between stimulus and response had a kind of inevitability , an independence from processes which we would normally regard as mental : it by-passed our knowledge of the friend 's personality , history , and basic assumptions about human motivation , the orderliness of conduct , and so forth . |
| 20 | It affirmed their desire to institutionalize and strengthen the CSCE , whose role would , however , remain complementary to that of NATO . |
| 21 | In November 1978 , DATEC issued further proposals in which it affirmed its philosophy that colleges should have the maximum opportunity to develop courses which they consider to be most appropriate to educational , commercial and professional needs as they are able to identify and define them . |
| 22 | Taking as its basic premise the principle that courses of higher education should be made available to all those able and willing to benefit from them , it affirmed its belief that the pool of ability , especially among girls , who at that time were grossly under-represented in higher education , was sufficiently deep to warrant an expansion in the numbers of full-time and sandwich students in higher education in England , Scotland and Wales from 216,000 in 1962–3 to 390,000 in 1973–4 and 560,000 in 1980–1 . |
| 23 | April 1992 saw the car completed and it passed its MOT with flying colours . |
| 24 | It appeared that more was required and Liz , resenting the inanity thus forced upon her even as it passed her lips , found herself saying ‘ And how are you looking forward to the 1980s ? ’ |
| 25 | In answer to a parliamentary question on Aug. 5 the government said that it expected its NATO allies to withdraw around 133,000 troops over the next few years , of which 75,000 would be from the USA and 25,000 from the UK . |
| 26 | It wasted what money it had on drinking and it spoke with rough accents . |
| 27 | Seeing no need why it alone should be expected to make up the deficit , it requested its allies to increase their defence expenditure . |
| 28 | It interrupted her thoughts . |
| 29 | When announcing the increase in such benefits for 1981 , it disclosed its intention to increase invalidity benefit by 5 per cent less than the rise in prices . |
| 30 | Much of it concerned her confidante and co-playwright , Lady Bell . |