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

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1 It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls .
2 On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired .
3 THE GOVERNMENT has sold land at 500 times the price it paid angry farmers when vesting for Ulster 's new city .
4 Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads .
5 In its first year of operation it made 25,000 cars and trucks .
6 The strategic concept had everything in its favour ; for success it required efficient planning and ruthless aggression .
7 That was bad enough , but when he told my daughter it started three weeks after they married and lasted until three months ago , she threw him out and she 's changed the locks of the house and says she will divorce him .
8 Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time .
9 David Reynolds had arranged to meet Diane Rohmer in the Science block , because unlike the Union building it had open access and he would n't have to be signed in .
10 each , each time you pulled a handle it did one job and er could n't tell you really now what it was , you know but er you 'd pull the five handles in a few minutes and the damn thing was done .
11 It had been reported that Smith was to send a written offer to Celtic for Aitken , and although Smith would not specify the amount it became common knowledge that it was for around £300,000 .
12 In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security .
13 ( In fact , Mr Duroselle seems almost to believe that the worst aspect of colonialism was the way it divided European nations that might otherwise have come together . )
14 Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence .
15 Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes .
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