Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This group has long been noted for its breadth of vision but nevertheless it took them some time to realise the unique advantages of the photosynthetic ‘ mechanisms ’ in plants and thereby to derive what may be an original approach to the problem . |
| 2 | Yet somehow it brought him more explaining to do . |
| 3 | I do n't know how much Oliver 's told you about the Shakespeare School , but take it from me that place is tacky : how it got its registered status I shudder to think . |
| 4 | Peter followed , thinking how such behaviour would have infuriated his mother , and how it strengthened his own position . |
| 5 | Clean changes were possible given a little patience , but moving from first to second was reminiscent of shovelling coal — sometime the lever slid into place , sometimes it jarred my whole body . |
| 6 | The monastery rebuilt the castle keep on Piel Island , whence it exported its own wool in ships built in its own dockyard there . |
| 7 | And yet it seemed her annoying presence somehow energised him . |
| 8 | Brahms took three years to complete his second piano concerto , and he was 48 when it had its first performance ( 1881 ) with himself as soloist , in Budapest — then the twin capital , with Vienna , of the Austro-Hungarian Empire . |
| 9 | Figure 2.4 shows how the number of births in the United Kingdom has varied from year to year since 1964 , when it reached its highest figure since the 1920s . |
| 10 | Knock it senseless every hour when it raised its fanged head and decided to sharpen its nasty little claws . |
| 11 | The company 's interest in pictures goes back to 1976 when it established its Fine Art Foundation to sponsor contemporary ( particularly young ) artists . |
| 12 | started manufacturing extruded products in 1964 , with the current Omega brand being launched in 1976. exports business grew rapidly through to 1988 when it won its first Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 13 | The national organisation , which represents the whole of the building industry , started in 1866 when it held its initial meeting in the Durham Ox public house in Brownlow Hill . |
| 14 | This articulated railcar was scrapped in 1959 but the passenger trailer was towed , on road wheels fitted in place of the bogie to Dunfanaghy where it commenced its 30 year career as a holiday home . |
| 15 | Having crossed the Siemens ' Brothers homeland , it then clipped through a southern corner of Russia heading for Tehran , where it had its only interconnection before continuing on to the Indian sub-continent . |