Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 2 | It prolonged the life of mice with leukaemia , and it produced dramatic remissions in some leukaemia patients . |
| 3 | It made five goals in nine League games for the 29-year-old Scot and earned high praise from Lawrence . |
| 4 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 5 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |
| 6 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
| 7 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 8 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 9 | It showed five men in eighteenth-century garb , four seated , one standing , bewigged and splendid in their clothes and obviously , for their time , wealthy men . |
| 10 | It discovered poor ground in general and was then below the eastern end of Kernal Crag and about 30 fathoms from the pumping/winding sump sinking below Fleming 's Level 210 ft. above . |
| 11 | It stuck tiny thumbs in small ears , wagged its fingers , and put out its tongue . |
| 12 | It achieved full independence in 1936 as the kingdom of Egypt . |
| 13 | Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire , Syria was in 1920 occupied by France under a League of Nations mandate ; it achieved full independence in 1946 . |
| 14 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 15 | His face was thin and emaciated , drawn together as if it spent each night in some kind of linen press . |
| 16 | It covered 100 yards in three seconds which means a speed of nearly 70 miles an hour ! |
| 17 | In 1983 it acquired 3,965 hectares in 549 parcels throughout the Auvergne ( half of them under 1 hectare each ) ; 2,439 hectares in 315 parcels was within the LFA Zone de Montagne . |
| 18 | Operating from one room above Bishopsgate Fire Station from 1968 , by the time Silverman sold out in 1976 it occupied five floors in High Holborn , employed nearly 100 staff and was earning nearly £1m. annually . |
| 19 | These industrialists welcomed foreign capital , because they felt that it stimulated economic activity in general , from which they could all benefit ( Petras and Cook 1973 ) . |
| 20 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 21 | It gained 14 points in early trading but was down almost 25 points before rallying in the last hour to close 20.3 lower at 2,818.0 , with just under 600 million shares changing hands . |