Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had an educative purpose , and it brought in some cash to hard-pressed regions . |
| 2 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The good news is Blanc 's medical found nothing untoward — and it revealed very little fat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 9 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 10 | The cobbled lane boasted a pub , the Bargee , which the rivermen used , but it saw very few customers once the wharf gates clanged shut . |
| 11 | But it ate so much procession power that most PCs could n't drive it fast enough , so hardly anyone bought it . |
| 12 | A Congress of People 's Deputies was elected from the whole country , but it contained too many deputies to be an effective parliamentary assembly . |
| 13 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |
| 14 | But it started again this evening . |