Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " 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 That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’
4 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 ) .
5 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 .
6 ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney .
7 Each one of us was beckoned over to have a go when it was my turn I rushed over and put the tanks on I then submerged It felt strange breathing under water like a fish the bubble emitted from the regulator trickled up the side of my face .
8 Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation .
9 It is interesting to compare Ferguson 's reaction to Vidor 's film with his reaction at much the same time to the newly released It Happened One Night , which Frank Capra had directed for Columbia .
10 I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er
11 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 .
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