Example sentences of "[pron] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ferranti is now convinced that it was the victim of fraud perpetrated by International Signal and Control which it took over two years ago . |
2 | Despite hopes that Sun would think up something warm and friendly to call them , the things have been dubbed Sparcstation 10s — small improvement over the Sparcstation 3s they might have been — in recognition of Sun 's tenth birthday , which it celebrated earlier this year . |
3 | In 1713–40 , a period during which it did hardly any fighting , the Prussian army lost over 30,000 men by desertion . |
4 | The Scottish Office ex-tended the powers of the institution to award degrees , which it won only last year , so that it will be able to run Masters degree courses from next month . |
5 | Unless it can effect a remarkable recovery , the factory may well disappear back into the bleak and sodden marshes of Essex from which it emerged nearly 60 years ago . |
6 | Instead Smith Kline chose just twenty-five key distributors , with whom it maintained far closer contact than was usual practice . |
7 | This was a brilliant performance , and for me it brought back nostalgic memories of Windrush , and the summer days of 1940 . |