Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pos pn] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It made its own crazy sense .
2 She liked the cottage as much as he did , it cast its own peculiar spell , but it was n't something out of Grimm .
3 Just as the post-war economic depression set in , so it signalled its own personal tragedy for the Titford family : on 25 February 1816 , Ben the Outrider died , aged barely 29 .
4 But South America has its own great grasslands , and it evolved its own separate groups of large herbivores to exploit the resource .
5 In 1990 , it established its own Japanese office in Tokyo and began offering technical support on a local basis .
6 He said it contained his own private cargo and that he wanted to unload it himself .
7 Like any vast industrial complex , it had its own substantial railway sidings to move and accept train loads of iron ore and to ship the completed products en route to its customers worldwide .
8 He had gingerly opened the Book , which was chained to the octiron pedestal in the middle of the rune-strewn floor not lest someone steal it , but lest it escape ; for it was the Octavo , so full of magic that it had its own vague sentience .
9 Though it still needed to learn to live with the ways of the new peoples , it had its own mature traditions , and cultural and institutional development , encapsulating much of Roman civilization and fitting it to play a decisive role in shaping the new Germanic societies .
10 Snaith was a Peculiar , ie it had its own ecclesiastical court and in many ways it was exempt from the jurisdiction of the Bishop , which may explain the fact that the Bishop 's inspectors came to interview the brothers at Snaith for reported ‘ indiscretions ’ and were unable to carry out their inspection because the brothers had summoned the ferry to the Snaith bank so they could not cross the river !
11 It had its own permanent staff ; hence user — staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups .
12 It had its own unique ways of safeguarding objects in its care , and its own ways of keeping the galaxy 's criminal predators at bay .
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