Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 2 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
| 3 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 4 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 5 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 6 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 7 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 8 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 9 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 10 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |