Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later it said Bosnian Muslim forces counter-attacked and pushed the Serbs back two miles . |
| 2 | Not in this airless back yard with its cat-fouled alley , yet now it bore shining green leaves and four fat flower buds — and Gerry would never see them . |
| 3 | oh one eighth horse power motor , well it drove that little lad , you know , that I , that , what I use now , but you see to have a big one |
| 4 | But more importantly it brought free secondary education for all . |
| 5 | Maybe it explained all those girls in his past as well . |
| 6 | And then it went five hundred plus . |
| 7 | Then it put two Croatian towns , ancient Dubrovnik , on the Adriatic , and Vukovar , a pretty Danube town , under siege ; to punish or reverse Croatia 's secession , said the army . |
| 8 | But there it encountered another ruined project , a work to be called The Drunks of which only a tiny fragment survives , and the marriage of these two constitutes the success of Crime and Punishment . |
| 9 | Public interest research group New Consumer added more pressure in March when it launched Changing Corporate Values , a revealing survey of 128 UK suppliers of consumer goods and services . |
| 10 | The Express has lost millions of readers since its heyday in 1964 when it had 4.2 million circulation — and the deadly decline continues this month . |
| 11 | But they were withdrawn immediately after the election , when it seemed likely that interest rates would fall , and succeeded by bonds offering a lower return . |
| 12 | The Feminine Mystique , which dared to put the silent question , did not see the light of day until 1963 , when it sold three million copies , but it was already being written and its audience was waiting . |
| 13 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 14 | Those were the days , when it started several hundred years ago , when sensationalism was not the habit of the press . |
| 15 | The IMM commenced business in 1972 when it listed seven foreign currency futures contracts . |
| 16 | The engine was originally installed at Godwins Engineering Works at Quenington in Gloucestershire where it drove some 400 yards ( 369 metres ) of line shafting , powering the entire factory . |
| 17 | Such a heroic venture requires heroic singing , and that is where it seemed this enthralling evening would fall short of its target . |
| 18 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 19 | Previously it caused serious environmental problems , with odour , leaching of nitrates , and water pollution all emanating from stocks held for manure . |