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

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1 You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it .
2 ‘ 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 .
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 In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England .
5 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 .
6 Autumn became winter and it turned steely cold .
7 He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
11 For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun .
12 I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild .
13 It meant we had to chase the game and it left more room for their two dangerous strikers .
14 A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies .
15 And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow .
20 It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing .
21 This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English .
22 It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews .
23 It was inspired by Brendan Foster and it brought international athletics to the town and put it on the map .
24 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 .
25 It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 .
26 She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 I looked up the teletext and it said full squad for Manchester United .
30 I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith .
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