Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb infin] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 2 | Last year Philips petitioned Brussels for this price rise , without even telling Sony , the Japanese company that helped it develop the digital disc system . |
| 3 | Not only did it furnish the missing equation of the Keynesian system , it had also assumed a role of paramount significance in the formulation of macroeconomic policy . |
| 4 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 5 | The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica . |
| 6 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |