Example sentences of "[subord] it [vb past] [vb infin] some [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
2 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
3 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
4 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
5 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |