Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The show came under attack before it even opened because one critic said it contained erotic love scenes , a roller skating comic and a simulated sex act .
2 When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams .
3 Ben called it breaking new ground ; she herself would have put it ‘ widening her scope ’ .
4 On the question of whether the locomotive would be available to complete the double 8F' Cumbrian Mountain Express at the end of October , Mr Draper advised that the locomotive would be available if BR required it to complete this roster .
5 It was very basic indeed , and only by dint of preparation for the royal visitor did it have any carpeting on the stairs .
6 He does n't think Joe wanted it to end that way .
7 And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years .
8 Facilities manager and financial bureau services operator Fiserv Inc , Milwaukee said it had definitive agreement to acquire Datatronix Financial Services Inc , San Diego for $31.75 a share , but did not say how many shares the cheque and financial item processor for financial institutions had out .
9 Tests revealed it contained formic acid , which a doctor from Newcastle University said could be lethal to a child if only teaspoonful was swallowed .
10 ‘ The Doctor said it transmitted mental power … . ’
11 The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted .
12 European movements of national liberation were the most important forms of popular rebellion during their lifetime , but the intellectual atmosphere of mid-nineteenth-century London as well as their own convictions made it seem that nationalism was a temporary phase , and that internationalism was the norm , or at least the force that would grow most powerfully in the future .
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