Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
2 | Modern scientists tell us that Bartley could not have survived more than a few minutes in the whale 's belly , let alone the half-day or more it took the unwitting sailors on the mother ship to release this modern Jonah . |
3 | Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses . |
4 | Now it used the United Nations as its cover and it 's fortunate in that the Soviet Union was absent from the Security Council and so was not able to veto the resolution which authorized American intervention . |
5 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
6 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
7 | Yeah but then it split the bloody pairs all in bits . |
8 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
9 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |