Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel . |
| 2 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 3 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 5 | The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later . |
| 6 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
| 7 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 8 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 9 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 10 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 11 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 12 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 13 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 14 | Maybe it had some reality in sales transactions of other times , when buyers took goods away then and there or a day later . |
| 15 | If this was a genetic accident , then it had tremendous significance in regard to unintentional evolution to homeothermy and great species longevity . |
| 16 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 17 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 18 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 19 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 20 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 21 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 22 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 23 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 24 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 25 | Housing had been the responsibility of the Urban Renewal Authority ( URA ) since the early 1970s when it achieved independent recognition through federal legislation . |
| 26 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 27 | Time Warner has been looking for a high-technology partner since 1991 , when it sold smaller stakes in TWE to two Japanese firms , Toshiba and ITOCHU ( then known as C. Itoh ) . |
| 28 | TI 's announcement , says Mr Garner , was in direct response to its experience of three years ago , when it attracted heavy criticism over its acquisition and goodwill accounting techniques — in spite of the huge amount spent on acquisitions , the substantial rationalisation costs involved were rarely charged to the p&l account . |
| 29 | It is a more bracing place to be than its rival , but much faded none the less from its days of greatest success in the last century , when it formed one end of the Route Therm ale , a new road system , decreed by the Emperor Napoleon III , which was to link Eaux-Bonnes with Bagnéres-de-Bigorre to the northeast . |
| 30 | The first record of the Works ' involvement in war-work is that of 1855 , when it supplied two locomotives for the Army on the Balaclava Railway in the Crimea . |