Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 2 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |
| 3 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 4 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 5 | However , in Peart the accused was not guilty when he obtained a car on the undertaking that he was going to drive it 30 miles in one direction but drove it 100 miles in another . |
| 6 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 7 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 8 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 9 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |