Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is partly a result of private acquisition of forest lands prior to the General Revision Act of 1891 , when it made more economic sense to annex high quality , easily accessible forests . |
| 2 | I would n't believe it made that much difference do you ? |
| 3 | Diana 's got it taped as royal spoof hits street |
| 4 | Both the size and the overall structure of the text helped enormously here , in that it comprised only 11 sentences totalling 130 words . |
| 5 | ON reporting to Chantilly on the morning of February 25th , Pétain and Serrigny found that ‘ the panic was at its peak ’ The fall of Verdun was expected momentarily , ‘ and everybody was saying that General Herr should be shot ’ Somehow it leaked out that Pétain had come from Paris , not Noailles , and the word was quickly passed round by those veterans of intrigue that he had first been to see the Minister of War , Galliéni , the implacable foe of G.Q.G. Doubtless the rumour helped augment the alarm in the air . |
| 6 | As it walked so browning leaves fell from its body . |
| 7 | Such was the enthusiasm and unanimity of the delegates of the steering committee that it required only two meetings to complete their task . |
| 8 | It knew the bank 's position ; it knew how much liquidity to inject to relieve the pressure . |
| 9 | Freedom from the restraining hand of a squire or a parson no doubt encouraged enterprise but it meant that much activity went unrecorded . |
| 10 | It took over 10 months to take a case through the ABTA conciliation and arbitration scheme and over a year through the one run by the Glass and Glazing Federation ( GGF ) . |
| 11 | It took nearly two hours to get the pony out on to solid ground , but when they had done so and he was examined , Farmer Yatton was able to tell the thankful Angela that her pet had come to no real harm . |
| 12 | This description was entirely correct , but it took nearly 50 years to work out exactly how the different parts fitted together . |
| 13 | Pitching : on one wild and windy night it took just five minutes to put up the inner . |
| 14 | It was an explosive cocktail and it took just one spark to bring on her illness . |
| 15 | With the help of Haslington and Sandbach Knitting Clubs it took just ten days to fill 18 large bin liners and two machines were donated as well . |
| 16 | It took just ten seconds to transfer the limp bodies . |
| 17 | Indeed , the only good thing about their confrontation against Sukova and Novotna is that it took just 50 minutes to complete , with the established Czech combination sweeping to a 6-2 , 6-2 victory and a place in the semi-finals against the United States . |
| 18 | It took around six months to get to the quality audit stage and we were then able to invite in the assessor . ’ |
| 19 | Before the advent of machine spinning it took around six spinners to supply a weaver with yarn , and the putting-out reach of clothiers seeking yarn extended well beyond the perimeter of weaving . |
| 20 | It took very little ingenuity to transform an ordinary bone conductor type of National Health hearing-aid and to attach a metal ring to the receiver so that it could be worn like an ordinary ring . |
| 21 | The tannery had the deserted aspect it always wore ; it took very few workers to keep it productive . |
| 22 | It took almost fifty years to deflect this falsification on to causes other than Newton 's theory . |
| 23 | It took almost two years to complete — but it was worth every bead of sweat . |
| 24 | It took almost twenty years to launch a new attempt to embody in formal texts some of humanity 's yearnings for effective restrictions on war . |
| 25 | It took almost three days to make the appointments necessary to meet three local judges . |
| 26 | It cracked the wall down that side and it took out that window put a big crack in there and also in the ceiling . |
| 27 | I kept on waking up in a panic , thinking I had missed an observation , and it took quite some while to get my internal clock re-adjusted to normal waking and sleeping hours . |
| 28 | It took only ten minutes to get from the Hatton 's flat to Bailey Street where , at number ten , Jack Pertwee lived with his widowed father . |
| 29 | Here , contamination with metals , says Battarbee , occurs ‘ about ten years before the first evidence of acidification ’ , which suggests that it took only ten years to exhaust the lake 's capacity to buffer pollution . |
| 30 | It was 2,926 yards long and 14 feet wide , but it took only 3 years to complete because of more advanced engineering methods . |