Example sentences of "it [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It agreed a new report which recorded widespread evidence that the world 's temperature was increasing . |
| 2 | It operated a large tramway system in North-West London , with over three hundred cars . |
| 3 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 4 | D&B says it evaluated a dozen query tools before deciding on Microsoft Access , which proved more user friendly than any of the others , and does n't require SQL programming skills . |
| 5 | Commodore International Ltd says it repaid a loan of $13m to the Prudential Insurance Co of America rather than accept the terms that were proposed . |
| 6 | It engendered a physical response . |
| 7 | Even the power of the storm , with which it shared a kinship also , could not assuage the hunger . |
| 8 | It succeeded a plain stone building , roughcast and whitewashed , with room for 500 and a general attendance of 400 . |
| 9 | Significantly , it got a laugh but did n't shut the lady up . |
| 10 | It was an ever increasing thing that blew up because it got a little too big , but it did make David a star and he has dealt with it really well , and is a man who does wonderful work . |
| 11 | He knew that he would have to climb down , hand over hand , foot dangling until it got a hold , body close to the wood , face turned up and away from whatever awesome sight awaited him at the bottom of the tree . |
| 12 | It got a lot of airplay from John Peel , and was written up extensively by the music press . |
| 13 | I got a bit fed up after we 'd toured Britain once , it got a bit boring seeing the same places . ’ |
| 14 | There 's too much going on in Adventuredom to give much room to its older denizens , but you ca n't go far wrong with Bloodwych — it got a Sizzler in Issue 65 ! |
| 15 | And we sold a couple of million records , so it got a bit popular ! ’ |
| 16 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |
| 17 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 18 | Marlon may have got involved in a noble cause , but it got a lot of people 's backs up in the business . |
| 19 | And it got a hold on us , too . |
| 20 | ‘ Then it got a little better and as long as he knew Andre was close by , he felt secure . |
| 21 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |
| 22 | It had Courbet , Degas , Corot , Picasso , Braque , Matisse , Delacroix , and it got a very good review in the New York Times . |
| 23 | ‘ It got a bit difficult . |
| 24 | It got a roar of appreciation which I can still hear , and afterwards Stephen Sondheim came over to ask me if I 'd had the dress made to go with the remark . |
| 25 | It got a lot of visitors , passing heads , the curious , the indigent , the bombed out , the Hell 's Angels . |
| 26 | Once Mr Hooper started managing this group , it got a name for itself — ‘ Black and Blue ’ . |
| 27 | It got a mention . |
| 28 | Well I think as an early potato Stefan , I would chose from Rocket for the earliest , I would grow I think for as well as that I would go for Foremost but if you want a real waxy potato it would still be Arran Pilot cos now whenever you eat it it got a strong taste , whether it 's young or whether it 's old . |
| 29 | And , we also feel it got a future to the people who are working within it , , in that it will lead them on hopefully , to useful employment opportunities . |
| 30 | It got a bit confusing , writing it all down . |