Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When Windows was in the same place it only had 25,000 kits out .
2 In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left .
3 Even at this size it completely outclassed most Rutland villages , quite two-thirds of which had populations of fewer than 150 .
4 But I had a problem in that very often people wanted a double wardrobe moving and of course it then needed two men .
5 As the season drew to a close it actively encouraged early retirement and voluntary redundancy amongst its older or less productive workers and filled the resulting vacancies with the most productive temporary workers .
6 Last year it only sold 5,500 houses in 12 months , but this year it has already sold 4,160 houses in the first five months .
7 Jacobitism became attractive to a variety of different groups in the 1690s , including commonwealth Whigs , although at this time it still had little support in society at large .
8 although in fact it still had some way to run ; the third were presents given when the case really was over .
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