Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never once have I dipped a finger into that money-bag , however fat it bulged and however heavy it weighed ; it was always brought straight home to you … every farthing that crossed my palm . ’ |
| 2 | There was no fundamental weakness in the PWR design and British safety standards would ensure that it operated as well as the best . |
| 3 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 4 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 5 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 6 | At the heart of both of them is a witness to the vital relationship between the historical reality of the Incarnation and a way of living by which man may engage with the spiritual reality it manifested and thus extend it in time . |
| 7 | They were unprepared to accept the structure of the initial conference proposed since it excluded and therefore tended to outlaw further the DRA regime . |
| 8 | The ANC , while expressing delight at their decision , nevertheless continued to call for the dissolution of the tricameral parliament , which it regarded as essentially racist . |
| 9 | Swiftly , now , before the deep-freezers , the dehydrators and the emulsifiers take the syllabub away from us and return it transformed and forever despoiled , let us discover how it was made in its heyday and what we can do to recapture something of its pristine charm . |
| 10 | It made the readers share in the horror it described and thereby so disgusted , shocked and outraged them that instead of tending to encourage anyone to homosexuality , drug-taking or brutal violence it would have precisely the reverse effect . |
| 11 | before it stopped and then of course I slept like a bloody log until about twenty past seven |
| 12 | When the 1971 Census asked a question about employment status , it found that about 40 per cent more people regarded themselves as unemployed than the official statistics showed . |
| 13 | It found that more than £300million a year is spent on employing staff to type for 600,000 civil servants and 22 cabinet ministers . |
| 14 | It transpired that somehow the clips had twisted and become detached from the rail , causing the only fatal accidents during the entire training programme . |
| 15 | It estimated that up to 10,000,000 people would have to be moved from low-lying coastal areas of East Anglia ( UK ) , Bangladesh and the Netherlands , or that an immediate start would have to be made on building 360,000 km of sea defences to protect them . |
| 16 | It estimated that more 6,000 political prisoners were being held in Turkish prisons . |
| 17 | It , it exploded but not in fire . |
| 18 | As he says in his autobiography , ‘ I had to take every race as it came and just try to win it because whatever happened to Niki — and the Ferrari was not relevant to me at that point . |
| 19 | Church Farm has been tenanted ever since , and from Clives , through marriages to the Earls of Powis , it came and still belongs to the Earls of Plymouth . |
| 20 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 21 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 22 | The groups discussed my problems and in the empowering atmosphere it came as quite natural that someone should suggest I start up my own campaign . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 24 | We have talked loosely about the original atmosphere of the Earth , and the way in which it affected and perhaps still affects life . |
| 25 | It seemed that somewhere ahead of them , towards the gate , all motion had ceased , and the press of people heaved and shifted , but made no progress . |
| 26 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
| 27 | It seemed that both incomers and Shetlanders presumed that the researchers did have a clearcut image of conflict in the area and that they were just fiddling about trying to show it , rather than attempting to do something about it ( e.g. putting the incomers somewhere else , helping out the incomers for once , etc . ) . |
| 28 | Now it seemed that today would be the same . |
| 29 | It seemed that here , there was never any spring , only wind and rain and the dull ache of loss . |
| 30 | It seemed that here was where the magic of Majorca lay , the duende , as Fernando would have said . |