Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To break down such barriers , Bow Valley last year decided to re-engineer the way in which it processed and distributed information . |
| 2 | It was not my little money and the confidence he erroneously imagined it engendered that came briefly to his rescue , but my blind passion for him . |
| 3 | It checked and looked at her . |
| 4 | This way and that it rippled and shivered and then was still , a great sea . |
| 5 | The dragon 's tail whipped around as it passed and caught him a stinging blow across the forehead . |
| 6 | She touched this totem carefully , gaining confidence as it quivered and tautened . |
| 7 | Entering from under the pit of his arm it pierced and split his left shoulder joint , and his body swivelled slowly into an upright position , suspended on the horn . |
| 8 | Albert 's dingy sink had been scoured to its original yellow colour , and the window above it gleamed and winked with unaccustomed cleanliness . |
| 9 | It swirled and broke across her hand . |
| 10 | It swirled and howled , driving the sleet and snow towards him alone . |
| 11 | It read as follows ( Hansard , Official Report , Sixth Series ( 1983 ) , vol. 49 , pp. 256–257 , cols. 506–507 ) : |
| 12 | It read as follows : I had spent many weary hours and weary days of negotiation before arriving at the point where I withdrew from acting as an adviser to the profession because the consultants had embarked on strike action . |
| 13 | You pushed it away to the back recesses of your mind , but it crept and crawled about and then annoyingly broke through the surface again . |
| 14 | It sought and found in Harry 's memory the niggling familiarity he had already sensed . |
| 15 | It was just that at the moment of climax when the escape had to be attempted or abandoned , it became if attempted something quite different from what it had been in the planning . |
| 16 | Armando Boetto , commanding officer of the 49 a Squadriglia , Blue 1 getting in the final burst before it disintegrated and fell into the sea . |
| 17 | As it moved it creaked and crackled , an old tree moving over crisp leaves . |
| 18 | He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge . |
| 19 | It creaked and wobbled ominously under their weight . |
| 20 | It swooped and gusted , then hung impermeably , aspiring almost to a solid state . |
| 21 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 22 | It was an old strapiron stairway with a counterbalanced ladder which , assuming that somebody kept it oiled and tested , would drop to give one-way access to ground level . |
| 23 | It argued that state ownership was party policy , and that the limited private capital contemplated would provide little real incentive for investment . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In the next chapters we will go on to consider what homoeopathy is , how it arose and developed , and how it fits in with the scheme of health and disease outlined here . |
| 26 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 27 | It cracked and growled , and roared and howled , |
| 28 | In every other respect it was typical of its kind , and like most spines , it was short lived ; as it cooled , it cracked and started to break up , while the heaving of fresh pulses of lava in the dome below rapidly caused what was left to collapse . |
| 29 | The Community 's role in this area should be stepped up and its action made more effective , with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and the respective roles of the member states and the social partners , in accordance with national practices and traditions [ the last phrase being inserted at the insistence of the UK which consistently opposed any extension of EC powers into areas it regarded as relating to employment law rather than to social policy ] … |
| 30 | A 24-hour strike was called by the Bolivian Workers ' Central ( COB ) for April 9 , in protest against the anti-coca campaign and against new legislation for the mining sector , approved at the same session of the Congress , which it regarded as preparing the way for privatization . |