Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] it [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 2 | A month ago , the UN thought it had persuaded Iran and Iraq to agree on a mixed military commission to settle some of the problems along their 750-mile border . |
| 3 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
| 4 | Earlier , the US announced it planned to slap tariffs of 200pc on white wine and other produce from the EC because of its refusal to cut subsidies to its farmers on oil seeds . |
| 5 | Late last night , the Hungarian news agency MTI said it had received telephone calls reporting more than 30 killings in clashes in Cluj , while another source reported clashes in Arad , 60 miles north of Timisoara , where demonstrators were massacred last week . |
| 6 | Asda said it had cut prices by up to 50 per cent on more than 1,500 lines . |
| 7 | Beecham claimed it had lost $24 million because of ‘ significant errors ’ in an over-optimistic YCS forecast , based on a Laboratory Test Market study , of the prospects for Delicare Cold Water Wash . |