Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only dish she made that we could tolerate was syrup tart , which we praised extravagantly , with the result that it became our unhealthy staple diet . |
| 2 | It was identified on the surveillance radar when it made its first position report and was cleared to continue to the BN non-directional beacon . |
| 3 | With his unkempt ginger hair running down into sideboards it made his hard face look even meaner . |
| 4 | It retained its old destination boxes and other appointments . |
| 5 | Showing political savvy , it reduced her six-year prison sentence to a fine of 15,000 rand ( $1,700 ) or one year in prison . |
| 6 | A bootstrap operation , it attracted its first venture capital in August of 1990 , a $1.2m investment from Sunwestern Investment Group . |
| 7 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 8 | It showed me that d-i-y decorating and repairs need not always be so technical and difficult — and you do n't have to be a big strapping man to do d-i-y . |
| 9 | In this sense , the description of themselves as ‘ ordinary ’ was an identity which simultaneously expressed two things : it indicated their own class position , between the extraordinary highly placed and the extraordinarily lowly placed , and at the same time , by its yearning to transcend class identity , it expressed the tensions of that position . |
| 10 | It developed his imaginative skills ad self-confidence and helped him to settle in at school more easily . ’ |
| 11 | The company 's interest in pictures goes back to 1976 when it established its Fine Art Foundation to sponsor contemporary ( particularly young ) artists . |
| 12 | Texas Instruments Inc reports that it delivered its 100,000th SuperSparc chip early in the first quarter and is now able to produce 50MHz Vikings in quantities of tens of thousands a month and in hundreds of thousands a quarter . |
| 13 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
| 14 | The company also said it is working out details of a tentative $5m settlement of a shareholder suit filed after it lost its only Cray-3 customer . |
| 15 | ‘ It satisfied my old GQ readers , ’ she said . |
| 16 | Yeltsin confirmed that the 1961 treaty of friendship , co-operation and mutual assistance between North Korea and the Soviet Union was no longer effective , and that Russia would not provide financial or military support for the Pyongyang regime until such time as it improved its human rights record and adopted a more co-operative stance on the issue of nuclear inspection . |
| 17 | This articulated railcar was scrapped in 1959 but the passenger trailer was towed , on road wheels fitted in place of the bogie to Dunfanaghy where it commenced its 30 year career as a holiday home . |
| 18 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 19 | It gave its familiar fanfare roar . |
| 20 | It gave us such household names as Glasgow , Linlithgow , Lanark , Bathgate , Dalkeith , Stirling , Perth , Aberdeen , Arbroath , the Tay , the Clyde , the Forth etc , as well as our capital 's Edin , and the famous burn 's Bannock . |
| 21 | Then , it appeared his official England career was over , but today he will become — after Mike Gatting and Paul Jarvis — the third former rebel to return , winning his 61st cap . |
| 22 | It dented my thick leather jacket . |
| 23 | When I became chairman of Hepworths , it had its own clothing plant and it either produced too much or not enough of the right quality at the right price at the right time . |
| 24 | It had its own inquiry desk , and a girl took me to Lennis at once . |
| 25 | It had what all lovers lovers , seek , secrecy , privacy , exclusivity . |
| 26 | Last week it launched its first multimedia X terminals — units able to produce sound as well as text and graphics . |
| 27 | The paper which , unlike Haycocks I and II , was not considered by the main ACSTT Committee because it arrived too late before it concluded its five year term , was circulated by the DES to interested organizations for discussion and comment and a large number of responses was received . |
| 28 | It closed its European sales offices last week because , according to sources , ‘ of lack of interest from end-users and few takers for the [ RPC Toolkit ] early adoption programme ’ . |
| 29 | It closed its European sales offices last week because , according to sources , ‘ of lack of interest from end-users and few takers for the [ RPC Toolkit ] early adoption programme ’ . |