Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 2 | So it 'd got this eggshell in the bottom and they used they would work a a mast a sail on it . |
| 3 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 4 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |
| 5 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
| 6 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 7 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 8 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 9 | I heaved myself out , folded my own blanket , lifted the boards and sorted everything till it looked how it 'd looked last night . |
| 10 | The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs . |
| 11 | Then it began to throw small stones , covered in snow , at the fifth window . |
| 12 | It occurred to him , as indeed it had occurred many times before , that commitment to one woman had as its inevitable corollary a lack of commitment to all the others . |
| 13 | He did n't mind responding to a panic call at such a late hour , especially not when it meant transporting three microwave ovens up to the Hall and so getting an advance peek at the preparations . |
| 14 | THE Scottish Office was accused of ‘ landlordism of the sea ’ yesterday when it agreed to end common fishing rights in part of Loch Crinan . |
| 15 | After all , if the images were created by her subconscious mind , there must be a reason why it chose to create certain images and not others . |
| 16 | Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases . |
| 17 | In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez . |