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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 So how can they do , and it took about ten years to build this
7 She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce .
8 But it was a yellow car and it had like soft toys and that in the back .
9 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 ?
10 And it happened just two streets away from The Bar .
11 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 ( The very lowest PTR of any English LEA was in the Isles of Scilly , but it had under 300 pupils in total ) ( CIPFA , 1989 ) .
14 The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut .
15 This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together .
16 It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods .
17 A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly .
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