Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our masters have had to size up the capacity they have at different plants and it made more sense to move production to Leeds |
| 2 | There were n't , we did it singly and it made more people did n't it ? |
| 3 | As one would expect , the composition of precious metal artefacts has always been heavily influenced by economic factors and it became common practice to modify their value by alloying them with baser metals . |
| 4 | And Creggan followed her helpless gaze , out past the bars to the great sky itself and it seemed that direction came suddenly to him at last . |
| 5 | Charlie 's office was small and poky and lightless and overcrowded , but the number of possible hiding places was limited and it seemed that she-d tried them all . |
| 6 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 7 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 8 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 9 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 10 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 11 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 12 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 13 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 14 | Staff appeared not to care about the unavailable theses , and it took considerable effort to persuade them to check the whereabouts of the missing ones . |
| 15 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 16 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 17 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 18 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 19 | Nonetheless the principle of retirement pension was accepted from this point onwards , and it enabled older people to maintain their position as active partners in structures of kin support , at least in financial terms . |
| 20 | Its deliberations had been hurried , its request for evidence stressed the need for a brevity viewed by many as excessive and it lacked sufficient resources to produce a credible alternative to any Government proposals . |
| 21 | In 1906 a herdbook for the ‘ race rouge flamande ’ was opened , with members all over West Flanders , and it included red animals found to the north of the main breeding zone as well : only external appearances were taken into account until 1920 , when a breed society was formed . |