Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For weeks he was the trouble of my dreams and it took real courage to go to see him in Attila the Hun . |
| 6 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 7 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 8 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 9 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 10 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |