Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
2 | Even in a city like London , with no large industrial base and a preponderance of casual labourers , we can see in the last half of the nineteenth century , as Gareth Stedman Jones has put it , the ‘ emergence of a working class culture which showed itself impervious to middle class attempts to guide it ’ , even as it remained politically conservative , and it developed deeply rooted family patterns of its own . |
3 | New Zealand has another Irish pub — and it sold over 50 kegs of Guinness in its first three weeks , well ahead of any other beer it stocks . |
4 | Such was its popularity that two reprints were ready in May and June of the same year ; Faber and Faber published the poem as a pamphlet in September , and it sold almost 12,000 copies . |
5 | Well , half fiveish normally , cos because you had to make your own round up , mark the papers and then , say , six o'clock and it lasted possibly three hours , you just in time for you to get to school for probably ten past nine . |
6 | The value of the USRC was thus of an indirect kind ; by involving more than seventy MPs and peers in social research the Unionist belief that the party was a party of reform was re-established ; it began the trend towards research for political action that was to accelerate after the war ; and it affected much later policy by influencing those who were to make it . |
7 | At an election rally in the Wembley Conference Centre in 1983 , I stood on a nail in my training shoes and it went nearly four centimetres into my foot . |
8 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
9 | A hay rake full of wet , rotting leaves can be very heavy , and it took around twenty heavings as a rule to clear enough to stop the pipe gasping for breath — or , rather , water . |
10 | The hotel had its own high-class shopping area , and it took only one telephone call to arrange for an assortment of clothes to be sent up . |
11 | So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this |
12 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
13 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
14 | But it was a yellow car and it had like soft toys and that in the back . |
15 | Erm yeah they do tend to but I have seen er a friend of mine had a really nice smart one , it was erm it was black , it was just plain black and it had really thin straps and erm it went down , it was a V or something here ? |
16 | Concepts like labour organized life in much the same way as the notion of God had done in the Middle Ages , and it had as little material reference . |
17 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
18 | It was called the Wyrmberg and it rose almost one half of a mile above the green valley ; a mountain huge , grey and upside down . |
19 | They closed it while the really major stuff was going on , and it opened again last Sunday . |
20 | This was essentially a biological approach , influenced by the taxonomic studies of Ray , and it aroused so much interest that Ray himself undertook a Latin translation . |
21 | And it happened just two streets away from The Bar . |
22 | The PS share of the vote fell from 34.76 to 17.59 per cent in the first round of voting and it won only 54 seats ( 252 in the outgoing National Assembly ) . |
23 | In retrospect it was courageous legislation but it had curiously little bite . |
24 | Expenditure in the various colleges varied tremendously : in Nottingham Institute ( admittedly non-residential ) it was £30 on each of its 60 students ; Western College in Plymouth spent £136 but it had only fourteen students . |
25 | ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) . |
26 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
27 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
28 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
29 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
30 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |