Example sentences of "it [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The auction house had expected £3 million from the sale — it got £10 million . |
| 2 | ‘ I can see how it got people 's backs up , ’ says Lesley . |
| 3 | ‘ It got people to sit down and think about these things . |
| 4 | Then through the decade of price hikes , it registered $17.5 billion in 1974 , $21.6 billion in 1977 , but relaxed to $20.9 billion in 1978 and $20.8 billion in 1979 , crumbling to $11.6 billion in 1980 . |
| 5 | It asked people to join ‘ a growing movement for action on the greatest issue of our times ’ . |
| 6 | MICHELIN , the world 's largest tyre maker , which sounded a warning of the depths of recession when it plunged £527m into the red last year , yesterday surprised the market with an operating profit throughout 1991 . |
| 7 | The company dropped the bombshell as it plunged £711million into the red in the first half of the year . |
| 8 | Though it produced data that permits analysis of the impact of child-spacing upon neonatal mortality , unfortunately the WFS did not provide information on fetal mortality . |
| 9 | Royal Bank won its first gold star when it lent £70,000 to help Mr Miller , a professional caterer , to buy a restaurant business in Hampstead , north London . |
| 10 | In the fourth quarter last year Informix had a 25% pre-tax profit and in the recently completed first quarter it posted 23% , White said . |
| 11 | It made £41.7m compared with £32.5m in 1990 and is increasing its total dividend payout to 56.4p per share from 47p . |
| 12 | The company 's most profitable year was 1990 when it made $7,246,667 , compared to $4,058,160 in 1989 . |
| 13 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 14 | Before tax , it made £90.4m , down only 4 p.c. , although the slide in earnings per share was steeper at 12 p.c. , to 7.58p fully diluted . |
| 15 | Then , it made £9m on sales of £223m . |
| 16 | It made £818,000 before tax in 1992 on turnover which rose from £12.3 million to £13 million . |
| 17 | Consumer electronics retailer Dixons Group Plc has bought one of the UK computer superstore pioneers , Vision Technology Group Ltd , which operates the PC World chain of superstores , for about £8.5m in cash and loan notes : Vision Tech was incorporated in 1991 to acquire a group of companies engaged in the sale by mail order of personal computers , peripherals , software and accessories to corporate and educational customers and the individual customers ; it made £400,000 pre-tax on volume of £49.3m last year from its stores in Croydon , West Thurrock , Brentford and Staples Corner , and it has net assets of £800,000 . |
| 18 | In 1989 it made £132m here and only £58m in Germany . |
| 19 | In Sir Hugh Casson 's words , ‘ It made people want things to be better and to believe they could be . ’ |
| 20 | Thirdly , it made people aware of the effect affluence was having on their environment . |
| 21 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 22 | It made people conscious that we were in touch with our friends in Burma again and it generated a spirit of confidence that liberation was only a matter of time . |
| 23 | As one of the group put it : ‘ It made people think about what they wanted to do for the whole year . ’ |
| 24 | It made people go crazy . |
| 25 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 26 | It made £62,000 ( $113,150 ; est. £70,000–100,000 ) . |
| 27 | Better education opportunities : There was a general sense of dissatisfaction with education provision which seemed to relate more to whether it met people 's needs than the actual range of classes provided . |
| 28 | When Her Majesty decided that she would not pay poll tax , even though it was supposed to be levied on every adult in the country , it changed people 's thinking , he says . |
| 29 | Lloyds Bank , which was the first to impose a levy , lost the most customers when it charged £12 for the privilege of owning its card . |
| 30 | Delta says it was the ‘ destructive acts ’ of the creditors ' committee and its advisers that prevented the reorganisation , and that it provided $115m finance and blames the committee for its losses . |