Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 3 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 4 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 5 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 6 | In the spirit of affability , may I congratulate the Government on one of the changes that they made some time ago , in which they followed fairly accurately the views expressed in early-day motion 488 , which noted that when ’ the Social Fund cold weather payments scheme trigger mechanism was put to a serious test it collapsed three times under the weight of its own absurdity the scheme is inadequate , inefficiently targeted and wasteful as the cost of advertising and administration are unjustifiably high ; and urges a new saving limit of £3,000 that would create a fully automatic scheme ’ . |
| 7 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 8 | In the early twentieth-century it had two churches , one shop , no omnibus or train service , no gas or water supply and no electricity ( the Rectory had a private generator ) . |
| 9 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 12 | A good hotel to stay at : apart from the excellence of its discreet service it had two exits . |
| 13 | In addition to twenty-five cabins it had three bars , a dining room which measured fifteen by fifty feet , a lounge with a baby grand piano , a writing room , library and sick bay . |
| 14 | At one point it boasted 13 members who were admirals — not many clubs in the world can stage an annual match called Admirals v The Rest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The pace of change was desultory , and the district only began work on contracting under the impetus of the neighbouring district it provided acute services for . |
| 17 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 18 | It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls . |
| 19 | At the same time it recommended enhanced powers for chief executives to arbitrate in sensitive political matters : for example , applying the rules for party balance on committees , determining whether an individual council has a need to inspect a document or attend a meeting , and deciding which chief officers should attend party group meetings . |
| 20 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 21 | In this way , the Committee was able , quite consistently , to propose what , on the one hand appeared to be a relaxation of the law in the area of homosexuality , whilst on the other hand it recommended stronger sanctions in the area of prostitution . |
| 22 | Although for the upper classes the Pax Romana in the age of the Antonines ( second century AD ) came as a great opportunity to concentrate on and uphold the customs of their local town or district , for humbler men it Provided wider horizons and unprecedented opportunities for travel . |
| 23 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 24 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 25 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |
| 26 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | Last week it announced first-quarter contributions of £11.1m from CMB — the result of the £900m merger between Metal Box and the French Carnaud company . |
| 28 | Last year it sold 2,000 properties ; it expects this year 's total to reach 3,500 . |