Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 2 | It was these which made progress relatively slow , and which on occasions even led the High Authority to bow down to views expressed in the Special Council of Ministers even where under the treaty it had undisputed authority to act . |
| 3 | In the end it took ten minutes to get the Cambridgeshire police Land Rover turned past McLeish 's squad and their vans , and away back up to the stable . |
| 4 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 5 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |