Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel . |
| 2 | So it stayed 70 years on the floor . |
| 3 | Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community . |
| 4 | Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital . |
| 5 | Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania . |
| 6 | Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ . |
| 7 | Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on . |
| 8 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 9 | Erm well it happened some time between about two and six |
| 10 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 11 | Maybe it had some bearing on Uncle Fred 's last words to me as I went off to do my National Service in the army . |
| 12 | Maybe it had some reality in sales transactions of other times , when buyers took goods away then and there or a day later . |
| 13 | If this was a genetic accident , then it had tremendous significance in regard to unintentional evolution to homeothermy and great species longevity . |
| 14 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 15 | This was a shadowy body with few supporters but at least it represented definite opposition to the Japanese presence . |
| 16 | If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through . |
| 17 | Instead it meant hard work with a capital H for all the fifteen or so staff . |
| 18 | Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome . |
| 19 | Yet it devoted more space to a rival attraction at the London School of Economics that same evening , Britain 's first teach-in ; the subject , the Vietnam War . |
| 20 | She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh . |