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

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1 It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards .
2 After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen .
3 While amateur gardeners in the UK have kept many old apple varieties alive , the US has lost forever most of the apples it had 100 years ago .
4 But in an increasingly urbanized society it took new forms more apparent to political opinion and more threatening to life and industry ; and there were very many more large populous areas devoid of the most elementary arrangements for disposing of waste or supplying pure water .
5 Virgin 's determined to fight , on Thursday it began legal action here in the United States .
6 A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation .
7 In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago .
8 ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago .
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