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

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1 With losses amounting to £71m ( $137m ) in Italian life insurance , Guardian Royal Exchange , a British insurance company , is shedding two of three Italian subsidiaries it bought nearly two years ago .
2 In material terms it gave only modest returns .
3 With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well .
4 Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc said it will shortly start shipping the Cray S-MP system , the first in a planned series of Sparc-based servers from Cray Research Superservers Inc , the subsidiary it formed around the Floating Point Systems Inc assets it acquired late last year .
5 AFTER reading the articles on dyslexic children it brought back this time last year when my son Steven , who is dyslexic , was trying for an engineering apprenticeship .
6 In some places the peat was only a few feet deep whereas in others it went down several yards .
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