Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 2 | Britain , France and West Germany have argued for a joint world turnover threshold of £3.5bn , while the majority want it set lower at £1.4bn . |
| 3 | EGG producers yesterday demanded the resignation of Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer as Agriculture Minister after his department admitted it did not pay farmers enough compensation for the slaughter of poultry flocks after the 1988 salmonella-in-eggs scare . |
| 4 | His attempt to re-create it embraced both method and people . |
| 5 | The revenue want it paid into an account in your name or a joint account . |
| 6 | According to a picture I had seen on the wall of the Royal Hotel , this Priory had been founded by King Felin O'Connor of Connaught , whose burial place it became . |
| 7 | The British Australian Studies Association says it organised the conference to get a greater understanding on Australian culture . |
| 8 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 9 | It was bloated and heavy , and the men gathered on the deck of the boat to receive it had great difficulty lifting it out of the water . |
| 10 | Dista says it told health department officials ‘ verbally ’ in July about the evidence of Opren accumulation in the elderly . |
| 11 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 12 | THE opponents of a major pylon scheme received a boost yesterday when a government department confirmed it intended to lodge a formal objection to the route . |
| 13 | However , the composition of this piece shows it came from Lake Baikal in Siberia , a source not exploited until the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | It ate their future complete it waited for them |
| 15 | Yesterday the International Squash Players Association confirmed it had received the $15,000 ( £9,400 ) withheld after Jansher 's walkout from the World Open 's official dinner . |
| 16 | Well I do n't know that must have been some clever fella to do it did n't he ? |
| 17 | Indeed , with the great roaring fires it looked like hell and the chef , Satan , attended by an army of demons labouring over turning spits and shining platters , interlarding the dripping , roasting lambs and piglets with their own globules of sweat . |
| 18 | As the scores were read out like a football draw it became clear that it would be a close contest . |
| 19 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |
| 20 | But a senior Kuwait delegate claimed his country had offered the other ministers a compromise on the tough quota demands it made when the meeting started but said the proposal were rejected . |
| 21 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 22 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 23 | As the pound slumped it fell below its ‘ effective ’ floor set by its relationship with the peseta but dealers say that the peseta constraint is no longer as important as it was once thought to be . |
| 24 | Water from a nearby spring kept it filled . |
| 25 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 26 | The defendant contended it accrued when the works were completed , in which event the action is statute-barred . |
| 27 | Deploying all of the ritual tactics of a US bid battle , Chevron , founded by the Rockefeller family , filed a lawsuit to remove Pennzoil as a shareholder claiming it had violated anti-trust laws with its share purchases . |
| 28 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 29 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
| 30 | The agent said it had sold a commercial garage in Middlesbrough to a named company . |