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

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1 ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said .
2 The party addressed much of its effort to workers and it enrolled few peasant members , yet the peasant question was central to its programme and during the revolution of 1905 it exerted considerable influence in the All-Russian Peasants ' Union .
3 Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds
4 For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun .
5 As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals .
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