Example sentences of "[det] [noun] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 2 | But some people it took three weeks to do I do n't know how the hell it did that , and I did n't even know |
| 3 | In some way it conveyed utter disbelief . |
| 4 | In this way it facilitated public representation of the relationship between the state , capital , and an emerging working class as one of pre-eminent moral stature . ’ |
| 5 | In 792 the Saxons revolted yet again ; this time it took two years of campaigning to suppress the Eastphalians and Nordalbingians involved . |
| 6 | But this time it took fewer repeats before the horse calmed and stopped . |
| 7 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 8 | Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state . |
| 9 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 10 | From these figures it monitored key ratios which indicated the capital adequacy , liquidity and degree of risk for each firm . |
| 11 | At the same time it recommended enhanced powers for chief executives to arbitrate in sensitive political matters : for example , applying the rules for party balance on committees , determining whether an individual council has a need to inspect a document or attend a meeting , and deciding which chief officers should attend party group meetings . |
| 12 | At the same time it offered great entertainment for the onlookers . |
| 13 | In fact , on any view it started many years before that , though in a haphazard manner . |
| 14 | At that time it had two units located in Wilmslow and Knutsford . |
| 15 | Unlike most dinosaurs it had sharp teeth with which it ate smaller creatures . |