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

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1 At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house .
2 Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb .
3 In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] .
4 But to the Hebrew mind it covered all human relationships .
5 Oh well , in the last second it went another ten metres .
6 Last second it went another ten metres .
7 I still chuckle when I think of that deadly , German secret weapon with its trunks , whiskers and puzzled expression and the panic it caused all those years ago .
8 In the following month it distributed two million leaflets on the Munich crisis , following this up in December with ten million leaflets on the Spanish Civil War .
9 That was the way it looked four hundred feet up .
10 But last year it sold seven million bibles translated into 119 languages to 90 countries and so became the world 's largest exporter of bibles .
11 Just last year it handled six million pounds worth of claims from churches hit by crime .
12 In the last academic year it published 23 major articles , and produced 26 papers in its Discussion Paper series .
13 The cathedral suffered grievously in the First World War , being bombarded mercilessly for four years , during which time it suffered 300 direct hits .
14 Our first difference arose over the Biafran War , which began in July 1967 and in which , by the time it ended some three years later , there had been a civilian death toll alone in Biafra of over two million people .
15 That lack of success on the acquisitions front — despite the fact it delayed other required moves into international business — has proved the agency 's saving grace .
16 In fact it took another two years for the project to be fully studied , for the government to support its formal submission to the World Bank , for the Bank 's board to approve it and for the first tranche of funds to flow .
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