Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest challenge to the continuing applicability of public service principles to broadcasting structure and content was not the arrival of TV itself , which slid comfortably into the BBC system in 1946 , where it had started 10 years earlier , but the Churchill government 's decision to introduce a second TV network in 1955 . |
| 2 | By 1985 sales of tape cassettes were outnumbering disc sales , although it had taken 40 years for the advocates of magnetic recording to see this come about . |
| 3 | The Judge said if it had cost one penny more he would have been hanged . |
| 4 | If it had said 22.000 KM. it would have been all the same to me . |
| 5 | If it had happened two years earlier , I could n't have coped . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I have n't got a grandmother but if I had one I would shoot her in the foot if it meant getting three points . ’ |
| 7 | Until more interesting work was available he felt he had no option but to keep the men in his charge fully occupied and if it meant using eight men to undertake a task which could be accomplished in a fraction of the time by a machine , well — the men were n't going anywhere . |
| 8 | The party won its right to a place on the ballot after it had gathered 96,000 signatures on a petition . |
| 9 | The man whose car collided with a coach moments before it crashed killing three people and injuring twenty-six others says he ca n't sleep for thinking about the accident . |