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

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1 If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies .
2 So it 'd got this eggshell in the bottom and they used they would work a a mast a sail on it .
3 Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction .
4 West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years .
5 A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news .
6 The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates .
7 The IRA said earlier it had issued two telephone warnings giving the exact location of the bombs .
8 Then it began to throw small stones , covered in snow , at the fifth window .
9 It occurred to him , as indeed it had occurred many times before , that commitment to one woman had as its inevitable corollary a lack of commitment to all the others .
10 Whereas previously it had sanctioned minimal provision for all paupers , since the 1870s it had insisted upon strict application of the principles of 1834 in the selection of paupers , and restriction of their numbers wherever possible , while at the same time insisting on relief ‘ adequate to meet need ’ in all cases .
11 In military terms the imperial era came to an end when the last British troops were withdrawn from East of Suez in 1972 , but politically it had ended sixteen years earlier at Suez .
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