Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline . |
| 2 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 3 | If , at first , his rule had appeared to be to the benefit of France , in the last years it had suffered considerable setbacks . |
| 4 | A review of the Board 's work in November 197 1 indicated that in the previous five years it had approved six courses in librarianship and two in information science at a total of six colleges . |
| 5 | A jeep stopped just outside Brigade H.Q The two stretchers it carried contained two bodies , each wrapped tightly in an Army blanket . |
| 6 | Turning to coal instead , the higher temperatures it achieved enabled English glass makers to develop an intrinsically stronger product . |