Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not believe it took two weeks to discover that three of our Olympic athletes had taken drugs . |
| 2 | The USA told the Philippine government on Sept. 24 that if agreement was not reached it wanted four years to withdraw its forces from Subic Bay . |
| 3 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 4 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 5 | Sentiment has not been helped by sharp profit downgrading from such pillars of Japanese business as Sony , Matsushita and Pioneer , though computer group Fujitsu recently said it expected current profits to be modestly increased . |