Example sentences of "[adv] it [num ord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I ca n't remember how it first came up , but we had this argument . |
| 2 | The cost was less than the price of an Amstrad PCW 8256 when it first came out onto the market all of those years ago . |
| 3 | It has been exported since 1817 , when it first went to the USA and Canada , soon spreading into Mexico and South America and readily adapting to environments which ranged from very cold uplands to hot , semi-desert plains . |
| 4 | This sort of survey has been done in many communities since the 1960s when it first became popular . |
| 5 | The overall economic picture was more gloomy than that set out by the government in November when it first put forward measures aimed at reversing the country 's economic decline [ see pp. 38587-88 ] and what it called the mismanagement by the previous Social Democratic administration . |
| 6 | Nationally , the total is up 1,056,000 on April , 1990 , when it first started expanding . |
| 7 | Apart from defence , its policies are not dissimilar to those of the 1960s when it last had an effective Commons majority . |
| 8 | As long as the problem departs , they do not really care why it first arose . |