Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's an unexploded bomb , Piper , and if it had gone off last night a lot of you silly buggers would have gone with it . ’ |
| 3 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 4 | When Stop Hinkley Expansion members had conducted a test run in 1957 to see just how quickly every house within the Hinkley Point evacuation zone could be visited ( as part of a campaign for sirens to be installed ) it had taken over two hours . |
| 5 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |