Example sentences of "[num] it [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In 1798 it took amazing moral courage to publish a poem which said ‘ the world is alive ’ .
2 By 1891–95 it had average total deposits of £83 m. — an average individual deposit of £14.75 .
3 In 1764 it housed four fulling stocks and two gig mills .
4 Between 1851 and 1918 it bought 30 other banks .
5 Its original membership only included those hiring tools and equipment , but in 1980 it created two new divisions which allowed companies hiring catering and audio visual equipment to join .
6 In 1886 it published two stout volumes by Edmund Gurney , Frederic Myers and Frank Podmore on Phantasms of the Living .
7 By the 1880s it had three main departments of this kind : Eastern , Western and American ( the last also covering China , Japan and Siam ) .
  Next page