Example sentences of "it [vb past] one " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skin of an otter , in common with that of all mammals , contains a substance known as L-serine , and fish are so acutely sensitive to this chemical that they can sense it diluted one thousand million times . |
| 2 | The entire cycle of wealth and waste , consumption and status buying , accompanied by the deep roar of the capitalist engine turning over ever faster , needed a name by which to handle its concepts and in 1957 it got one . |
| 3 | As I grew up in Kensal Green — which is just up the road from Ladbroke Grove — it became one of the areas the first wave of black immigrants came to . |
| 4 | As the news of Monkey Mia spread , it became one of Australia 's leading tourist attractions and was included on the itinerary of tour buses . |
| 5 | Along with Bologna , Oxford and Paris , it became one of the great centres of medieval scholarship , attracting students from all over Europe . |
| 6 | It became one of the most successful in the district and in 1920 was amalgamated with Hunt , Winterbotham , Strachan & Co . |
| 7 | The language had to be one accessible to more than the ruling elite , so it became one or other dialect of the vernacular . |
| 8 | It became one of the best known ‘ psychotogenic ’ drugs . |
| 9 | Ben Hogan has said that he wished he had learned the importance of left forearm rotation earlier in his career , as it became one of his keys in his later years . |
| 10 | It became one of his regular haunts , as did the Gargoyle , the club founded in the 1920s by David Tennant and run by him and Hermione Baddeley as a meeting-place for society and the arts . |
| 11 | Although the Harter Act compromise was seemingly counterintuitive ( how could the carrier be allowed to exempt itself for its own mistakes of navigation and management ) , it became one of the most internationally influential laws ever enacted by the United States Congress . |
| 12 | Under her leadership it became one of the most respected periodicals in the field . |
| 13 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 14 | It is said that he constructed a tank and poured into it molten gold so that it became one vast molten block . |
| 15 | In doing so it became one of the few countries where the brand has an active agency handling Guinness through the retail distribution system . |
| 16 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 17 | in Hungary it produced one of the performances , completing five laps in pre-qualifying , the best of which was 23.5secs slower than Thierry Boutsen 's pole winning time . |
| 18 | His private life centred on a happy marriage , ‘ steady as an ocean liner ’ in his biographer 's phrase , to a childhood friend ; it produced one daughter . |
| 19 | By contrast 85 per cent of the pupils were said by their teachers to have no experience of Example 14 , although it produced one of the highest success rates among the lowest third . |
| 20 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 21 | It made one critical , too . |
| 22 | It involved one prisoner who was recaptured soon afterwards . |
| 23 | It involved one of the biggest names in the rock world . |
| 24 | It rated one resident policeman and a mention in the Shell Guide . |
| 25 | It snatched one of the sticks that Philip was holding and dragged it to the far side of the feeding-place , barking . |
| 26 | Piaget 's work is important because it provided one of the first developmental accounts of the emergence of logical thought . |
| 27 | It provided one good hard jerk at nearly five gee , and then the tattered remnants were detached automatically . |
| 28 | It cost one and a half million pounds — but the hospital says it 's money well spent . |
| 29 | A future bishop , Launcelot Fleming , went to the lectures and was enthralled ; but the class ran a sweepstake ; if Hoskyns said theme it scored one mark , if he said ultimate theme it scored ten marks . |
| 30 | By the time my article appeared , it resembled one of those selective reviews you see outside theatres . |