Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 2 | Against the dollar it lost 1.9 cents to finish at $1.5585 . |
| 3 | A month later , PW made a breakthrough : it gained access to Mr Naqvi 's personal filing room where , among 6,000 files , it found the evidence it needed major customers colluding with BCCI in the falsification of accounting through the use of nominee arrangements , hold harmless arrangements and payment of fees to individuals to ensure cooperation , as well as proof of links between BCCI and the International Credit and Investment Corporation group . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lois Brown was critical of the length of time it took many publishers to make deliveries . |
| 7 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 8 | 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 . |