Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The round-up took two weeks and the army found it had to move 232 elephants . |
| 2 | He admitted fondling his ex-girlfriend 's daughter , but Social services assumed it had accurred 5 years before and his own children were n't in danger . |
| 3 | British Telecom said it had redirected 300 numbers by last night . |
| 4 | Last week Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 pubs . |
| 5 | Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England . |
| 6 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 7 | But yesterday Forum rejected the criticism and said it had put seven names to Mr Adamec for the cabinet posts . |
| 8 | It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date . |
| 9 | I said it had to come one day , did n't I ? ’ |