Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries was strongly in demand after results today showed it had made record half-year profits . |
| 2 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 3 | When it had beaten Cranborne junior School by three hundred runs , two Saturdays ago , he had linked arms with the headmaster and sung three verses of ‘ We Are the Champions ’ . |
| 4 | On May 2 the Defence Ministry announced that it had cancelled measures encouraging mainland Chinese soldiers to defect to Taiwan by offering gold or cash rewards . |
| 5 | It had taken Miro nine months of eight-hour working days . |
| 6 | It had taken Sabrina forty minutes to drive from Lausanne to Fribourg and another fifteen minutes to find the isolated goods yard where Teufel , the porter at Lausanne , had said she would find the freight cars . |
| 7 | It had taken Carlson some time but he believed that he had finally worked out who was responsible for the ritualistic murders on the planet . |
| 8 | Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes . |