Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
4 | THE Scottish Office was accused of ‘ landlordism of the sea ’ yesterday when it agreed to end common fishing rights in part of Loch Crinan . |
5 | 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 . |