Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 2 | ‘ It would bore the rest of the company even more than it did the first time . ’ |
| 3 | DARLINGTON Labour candidate Alan Milburn yesterday said his party would allow £8bn to be spent on council housing if it formed the next government . |
| 4 | The birth of Jesus thus came to be regarded as dividing time into two parts , because it ended the first phase of the divine purpose and initiated the second . |
| 5 | The secretary-managership of Leeds City had become vacant on the retirement of Scott Walford at the end of the club 's most disastrous season since it entered the Second Division eight years before , and the public looked with keen interest to see what effect the new man 's ‘ shrewd judgement and tactful management ’ ( Yorkshire Post ) would have . |
| 6 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 7 | I did n't enjoy it when it happened the first time . |
| 8 | The train slowed down as it reached the next station and the Punk stood up and came down the aisle towards them . |
| 9 | The voice held the same polite incredulity as it had the first time . |
| 10 | She re-read the previous page , but by the time she 'd got to the bottom again it made as little sense as it had the first time . |
| 11 | He hugged himself against the sudden freezing wind then scrambled to his feet as it whipped the first drops of rain through the open door . |
| 12 | The sociology of culture , as it entered the second half of the twentieth century , was broadly compounded of work done from these two positions , much of it of great local value . |
| 13 | [ T ] he remarkable thing about the British press , as it entered the twentieth century , was its resemblance … to the press of mid-Victorian times , in some respects to that of pre-Victorian times . |
| 14 | Thus was opened the Grand Union , aptly named , for it forged the last link of the ambitious grand design to connect the East Midlands coalfields to London , a total distance of 168 miles . |