Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] it [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Alvarez was fully aware of the ‘ bad news ’ part of the equation-the muon 's brief life which only allowed it to catalyse a handful of fusions before it perished .
2 SOMERSET County Cricket Club yesterday announced it made a profit of £82,612 during the last year , although chief executive Peter Anderson warned that the county is still in debt .
3 As we have seen , horses can learn some things very quickly , and once learnt it becomes a habit so they do n't have to reconsider the matter each time it arises .
4 Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems Inc says it has decided on the Code Division Multiple Access technology for its national digital cellular strategy : the Motorola Nortel Communications Inc joint venture will supply the hardware and software for the company 's first deployment in the northeast market in early 1994 ; Bell Atlantic also said it signed a letter of intent with AT&T Secure Communications Systems to test AT&T Secure 's cellular wireless data equipment over the Bell Atlantic network , which the company expects will make possible error-free transmission of cellular data .
5 It also said it has a plan to converge OSF/1 and OSF/l MK , its anticipated microkernel , into a single microkernel-based next generation OSF/1 , presumably in keeping with prior intentions ( UX No 373 ) .
6 The testator had made a will , but then opened it to have a look at it .
7 More likely used it to saw a hole through a pound coin .
  Next page