Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker . |
| 2 | More significantly , in practice it encouraged speculation in the more traditional sense — on assets whose prices were expected to rise by considerably more than the overall price level ( and would indeed do so if enough speculators made similar judgements ) . |
| 3 | It finished up with one erm very relevant , relevant to this class , quotation erm ca n't remember the last part of it though , he was talking about the Indian , that he had a , talking about it and saying voodism catholism and then the next stage erm which I ca n't remember the word but in effect it meant co-operation and you ca n't get that it seems to me unless you have a , a change of vision , change in erm not just in society but in people because this is where it starts . |
| 4 | In practice this agreement reflected yet again the pattern adopted by Shearman in Bedfordshire from 1930 onwards , and in effect it gave university resident tutors freedom to arrange both types of Chapter III courses . |
| 5 | In the short term it did sterling work in organizing petitions , counter-demonstrations and , most significantly , a mass lobby of Haringey Council in October , 1986 , when the Labour councillors reaffirmed their commitment to all aspects of their lesbian and gay rights policy . |
| 6 | This bull did irreparable harm to the Catholic cause in England ; coming too late to assist the Northern rising , which had already collapsed by the time it was issued , in the long term it equated Catholicism closely with treason and made the recusant community the object of deepening fear and suspicion . |
| 7 | But in the split second it took Angel Two to cover the few feet between them , Grant reflexively pulled the trigger of the shotgun . |
| 8 | He was at least partly associated with the decision to introduce ‘ hard labour ’ into prisons , but far from providing regular , steady discipline and useful work it became drudgery of the hardest and most servile kind , a hated example of the additional pains of imprisonment . |
| 9 | Couple of years after the war it got sort er bit more freer , you see . |
| 10 | erm I can not see , and this is where I part company with Peter Williamson to some extent , I can not see any reason why his data should be regarded as showing that when the sudden change did take place it took place for any reason other than natural selection within a single population . |
| 11 | What the star was , how it was connected to Eärendil , how the name could cover both star and man , from what danger it signalled deliverance , whether that deliverance was final for the soulless elves … all these questions , and others , could find answers in the inventions of later narrative , in the different viewpoints of The Silmarillion or Bilbo 's song in The Fellowship of the Ring . |
| 12 | And they said you know , and then all of a sudden it had sort of gone up six percent . |
| 13 | Within the business it guaranteed capital , perhaps useful business contacts , and above all reliable managers . |
| 14 | At first in the shadow of the wall it seemed pitch black , but his eyes rapidly adjusted to the light , or lack of it . |
| 15 | Next day it became bus service 12 , now shared with the blue buses of Fylde Borough . |
| 16 | And it was pink paper and at the top it had space for your parent 's signature so that when you 've done the work your parents had |
| 17 | After the service it took time for the galleries to empty . |
| 18 | If the Labour Party was to recover intellectually from the collapse of MacDonald 's " biological gradualism " and to build its local organisation it needed support from radical intellectuals and from the youth . |
| 19 | On each occasion it took time to warm a new ball . |
| 20 | After a while it became part of the nomes ' world , so that when it stopped the silence came as a shock . |
| 21 | In September the Ivoirien government cut the price it paid cocoa farmers for the second time since July , to CFA200 per kilogramme ( £368 a tonne ) . |
| 22 | Earlier this week it asked Crest Homes , the developers of a new primary school for the area , to think again about the proposed site . |
| 23 | Last week it launched version 4 of the XPG portability guide and laid out some of its plans for the future . |
| 24 | Last week it despatched entry forms for the Scottish Marketing Awards to its members , encouraging them to show how they had got to the top of the class . |
| 25 | This week it introduced HP Distributed Smalltalk , claiming it to be the first complete implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification for distributed computing . |
| 26 | In this respect it showed concern for the welfare of all men , and consequently it can be said that satyāgraha whenever it is implemented involves sarvodaya . |
| 27 | When it was on the ground it looked kind of lost . |
| 28 | For the first time in my life it made sense . |
| 29 | For the Greek it meant student , pupil or apprentice . |
| 30 | Nostalgia drew strength from , was nourished by Qaddafi 's ‘ abolition ’ of the state ; and in turn it nourished opposition to the leader 's state-like actions . |