Example sentences of "[vb past] it [prep] [art] [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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1 | The case of the chainmaking trade was particularly acute because of the large numbers of women who entered it during the late 1870s from nailmaking . |
2 | How much had the Mani changed since Leigh Fermor , that most distinguished of scholar gypsies , explored it in the late 1950s ? |
3 | I had built him up to play it right to the heart of the green but he played it like a nervous three handicapper . |
4 | The school seemed cold and it was certainly dark for the main windows faced north and tall buildings surrounded it on the other three sides . |
5 | Both could have done with outboard motors , since neither managed it into the top eight . |
6 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
7 | Unlike Ted , he had risen rapidly up the ranks , was voted Rookie of the Year in 1987 , made it into the Top 16 at the end of '88 , and was tipped to become a challenger for the world title . |
8 | Now Liz did n't win our first , second or third prize er last year , but she , she made it to the final twelve , er her , her full-length novel now , has now been accepted by Collins and that 's going to be published next February , there 's talk of a big American contract for Liz and Liz has now been floated away in to the world of big time professional writing . |
9 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
10 | He bought it in the Swinging Sixties and had never worn it . |
11 | In the early years this had always been kept small , but in the 1980s the Treasury increased it from the traditional 2 per cent of planned public spending in the 1976–9 period to over 6 per cent in 1990–1 . |
12 | McFarlane won it in an extraordinary 10.08 seconds , gale assisted . |
13 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
14 | The real swing to Labour was 8.45 per cent , but the newspapers and television had it as a mere 7.5 per cent . |