Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it took all this time to get here . |
| 2 | We did not have much time to smarten up the old girl and it took much hard work to soften the ravages of time . |
| 3 | And we went to the one next to it and it had all naked women in it . |
| 4 | It did n't quite reach up to Carfax , and it had another great landmark , as well as the big , rich college of Christchurch , and that was the Guildhall , built at the centre of the civic power , which was more or less , well , just where the Town Hall is now . |
| 5 | And it converted many more economists to the liberal , anti-interventionist wing of their trade . |
| 6 | Mossop could not remember the address and it required several false starts and wrong turnings before they located the right house , one grey-dashed end-of-terrace dwelling among the featureless many that spread like silt round the fenced-off acres of pipelines and flares . |
| 7 | The DUP was formed with the intention of increasing the non-evangelical element in the movement , but it had little initial success in broadening the recruiting base . |
| 8 | It was not itself a centre of manufacturing , but it outstripped all other ports as a point of transit for English exports and became thereby a major entrepot of international trade . |
| 9 | His voice was quite kind , but it forbade any more questions and Jinny fell silent , looking back over her shoulder as they reached the lip of the little hollow . |
| 10 | Boenninghausen had previously produced a repertory but it contained many more remedies under each heading than Kent 's repertory , which is easier to use . |
| 11 | This was the basis of the position which Barth presented with particular volcanic power in the second edition of his Romans ; but it contained another central element as well . |