Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Oct. 14 the ruling Military Committee for National Salvation ( CMSN ) amended an electoral law it had promulgated one week earlier . |
| 2 | The NSP said that as a result of the discovery it had arrested 62 people on charges of violating the National Security Law and the Military Secrets Protection Law . |
| 3 | Though this distinction could be abused , at this precise moment it helped to clarify two sets of problems the Council would have to deal with : internal questions ( nature of the Church , worship , ecumenism , etc. ) , and external questions ( war , peace , birth control , hunger , etc . ) . |
| 4 | The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country . |
| 5 | All in all , it was a fitting country seat for a magnate ; even before the rebuilding it had needed 160 servants to run the house and grounds . |
| 6 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 7 | By midweek it had killed 115 Peruvians in six weeks . |
| 8 | By the end of the century it had sold 1,250,000 copies and unlike Allon 's own collection of hymns , it had been an official publication , part of the growth in musical taste and improved choirs . |
| 9 | By the end of September that year it had sold 100,000 copies . |
| 10 | During the time it took to drink three glasses of unspeakable piss masquerading as wine , I had close to twenty offers : straight sex , not so straight sex , definitely warped sex , threesomes , foursomes , orgies , photos , videos . ’ |