Example sentences of "[num] it [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1779 it was the more radical of the parliamentary reformers and in 1790 it probably told against supporters of the third effort to do away with religious tests that they tried such unconventional methods . |
| 2 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 3 | yeah , yeah , I did n't know what they were like at seventy two it just said on window on one of them shops on Baldwin Lane |
| 4 | In peacetime the town must have been a sleepy and slow-moving place , but at the start of 1945 it fairly hummed with activity , being surrounded in all directions by RAF and American Air Force stations . |
| 5 | Finance Minister Itzhak Moda'i presented Eagleburger on Jan. 22 with an estimate that Israel would need US$13,000 million in additional US aid , in excess of the annual $3,000 million it already received in US military and economic assistance , to meet Gulf war losses up to mid-February ( $3,000 million ) and the absorbtion of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union ( $10,000 million ) . |