Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pron] [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electronic Retailing Systems International Inc , Wilton , Connecticut developer and marketer of electronic shelf labelling systems , reports that it got its initial public offering of 1.6m shares , 1.3m of them new , away at $13 a share . |
| 2 | It could be another sign that EASE is in for a tough few months , ironic when its annual report due to be published soon , will show that it made its first modest profit in 1992 . |
| 3 | It made its own crazy sense . |
| 4 | For the eight-year-old Louis-Napoleon , this episode was of great importance for it provided his only memorable contact with his uncle . |
| 5 | He also began to assert that capitalism would be able to survive class struggles in Europe while it retained its powerful economic base in the colonies . |
| 6 | Ultimately , however , Spain was a stepping-stone in the transmission and survival of Nazarean tradition , which continued its migration northwards , along the Atlantic perimeter of the Roman Church 's authority , until between the mid-fifth and the mid-seventh centuries it found its fullest European expression in the Celtic Church of Ireland . |
| 7 | But it cost us thirty seven pound a month . |
| 8 | She liked the cottage as much as he did , it cast its own peculiar spell , but it was n't something out of Grimm . |
| 9 | For one crazy , idiotic moment , Leith thought Naylor might have disposed of Sebastian 's deerstalker because it caused him some small degree of jealousy to see another man 's hat in her home . |
| 10 | It suffered its next severe blow in 1968 , when it was left on the shelf after a round of mergers from which the British banking industry emerged in the state it remained in until this year . |
| 11 | It lifted its great horned head as though to bellow a warning , but in that moment Chuck Sherman 's rifle roared and he let out a yell of delight as he heard the thud of the bullet strike home into the buffalo 's broad chest . |
| 12 | Just as the post-war economic depression set in , so it signalled its own personal tragedy for the Titford family : on 25 February 1816 , Ben the Outrider died , aged barely 29 . |
| 13 | The governors had placed great trust in him over the period of ten years ‘ during one of which it pleased its liberal Grand Visitor to take me with him to Ireland ’ . |
| 14 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
| 15 | Instead it bid its large parallel System 3600 machine running Unix , which meant that the bank faced a big conversion whatever it did . |
| 16 | In 1990 , it established its own Japanese office in Tokyo and began offering technical support on a local basis . |
| 17 | A Hunter rubbed the cold , clammy substance over his face , making sure that it covered his one remaining eye . |
| 18 | Seven years later , it lost its second main tourist accommodation when the Lake was burned down in an accidental fire . |
| 19 | Vanguard had performed well in the 1974 elections but , as Sarah Nelson notes , ‘ The VUP 's future was bound to be in doubt once it shed its two distinctive Vanguard features : militant opposition to British domination and alliance with workers and paramilitants . ’ |
| 20 | He said it contained his own private cargo and that he wanted to unload it himself . |
| 21 | If it kept her awake all night , then it was only right that she should wake up Jack for fresh hot-water bottles to be applied to the afflicted areas . |
| 22 | It took its characteristic dark colour from the addition of roasted barley to it . |
| 23 | It was right at the very beginning when you had to ask him about the introduction , I thought you were going straight off from the business card and all the rest of it and what you actually had was your C C Q in front of you because it took you all that time to get round to it . |
| 24 | I argued , I fought , but he wanted to believe that happiness was impossible ; it gave him some strange consolation . |
| 25 | She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on . |
| 26 | This was in connection with my RNR Sea Cadet duties but it gave me much more confidence on the navigational side of cutter service . |
| 27 | When it won its next large majority in 1966 , the circulation gap had narrowed to 13 points . |
| 28 | When it issued its first interim report in the autumn of 1955 , it was clear that it had narrowed its focus to the two core projects raised before Messina , the Netherlands proposal for a common market and Monnet 's ideas for a nuclear energy community . |
| 29 | It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism . |
| 30 | Like any vast industrial complex , it had its own substantial railway sidings to move and accept train loads of iron ore and to ship the completed products en route to its customers worldwide . |