Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 2 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 3 | ‘ I had a friend who used to say that if you burned a candle in your window and it burned all night , then the world would n't end while you were sleeping . ’ |
| 4 | When it first went off some time ago it would n't go but one day I took I took a jelly out in a glass dish and it bonked this thing and the light came on again . |
| 5 | Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold . |
| 6 | The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union . |
| 7 | The Continent , though devastated by war , was still of enormous significance , a centre of technologically-advanced industrial production , with a large population and it exerted colonial control over much of Africa and Asia . |
| 8 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 9 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 10 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 11 | All the leading cars traded places briefly during a flurry of pit-stops but it had little effect on Prost who was able to pull clear and win comfortably . |
| 12 | It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers . |
| 13 | Wake , who has taken over from Ron Aitken , said one of BAIE 's strengths was its diversity and it made sound practice , as well as fun , to tap into the network . |
| 14 | In any event the civil war was the ultimate sort of turning point which defined that the national government er had a responsibility for ensuring the permanence of the union and it took that responsibility so seriously it was prepared to engage in what was then the bloodiest war in human history . |
| 15 | News of his work with the handicapped also leaked out at the centre and it became common knowledge that he was using the OBEX swimming-pool . |
| 16 | It enrolled less than 50 members but it attracted active support from up to 2,000 sympathizers . |
| 17 | It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map . |
| 18 | This meant that the guest lists had to be scrutinized with great care and it required considerable awareness on the part of Eugénie to be able to decide who would match with whom . |
| 19 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 20 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 21 | By 1871 , Oldham had more cotton-spinning spindles than any country in the world outside the USA and it maintained that position of superiority until 1937 . |
| 22 | I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United . |
| 23 | Law meant the right ordering of society on earth and it reflected Divine Law . |