Example sentences of "[noun sg] and it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 2 | In 1891 the Review of the Churches began publication and it included representative editors from not only Nonconformity but from the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England . |
| 3 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 4 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 5 | And these opportunities were very considerable ; later generations might see the eighteenth-century empire as a monument to the constrictions of mercantilism , but at the time people saw it as the largest area of unrestricted trade in the world and it offered excellent prospects for men like the sugar and tobacco merchants of Glasgow . |
| 6 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 7 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 8 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 9 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 10 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |