Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
2 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
3 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
4 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
5 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
6 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
7 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
8 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
9 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
10 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
11 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
12 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
13 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
14 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
15 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
16 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
17 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
18 | And it had other things going for it too . |
19 | Nonetheless the principle of retirement pension was accepted from this point onwards , and it enabled older people to maintain their position as active partners in structures of kin support , at least in financial terms . |
20 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
21 | In 1906 a herdbook for the ‘ race rouge flamande ’ was opened , with members all over West Flanders , and it included red animals found to the north of the main breeding zone as well : only external appearances were taken into account until 1920 , when a breed society was formed . |
22 | But it had one thing missing — a proper paper . |
23 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
24 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
25 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
26 | At Lord 's , Fowler and Lloyd and Gower again made some runs , but it took thirty Extras to help their total to 196 . |
27 | But it took 5 months to find them accomodation after she was told to … |
28 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
29 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
30 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |