Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a beneficiary of this body it received £140,000 this financial year . |
| 2 | In occasionally active trading it closed 16p higher at 635p after touching 648p . |
| 3 | In the fourth quarter last year Informix had a 25% pre-tax profit and in the recently completed first quarter it posted 23% , White said . |
| 4 | In the Highlands and Islands as a whole it received 24% of all HIDB assistance in 1971–79 . |
| 5 | To rapturous applause it made $1.6 million , a world record for any clock at auction . |
| 6 | In the float it raised £50m cash , so is in a strong position to make its move . |
| 7 | ‘ When I took it to the beach it went brrmm , brrmm , up and down the sandhills . ’ |
| 8 | He tried to reach her again , and told the operator to put the howler on the line because the phone was off the hook , but the girl said reprovingly that it could n't be done in the middle of the night in case it woke people up . |
| 9 | Its initial success came chiefly in the traditional Dissenting districts , but by the beginning of Victoria 's reign it attracted people of all social backgrounds in almost every type of community except the estate village . |
| 10 | But he did n't just hate the railway as such ; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress . |
| 11 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 12 | Earlier this year it spent $1bn ( £620m ) on ordering 300,000 personal computers from West Germany . |
| 13 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 14 | Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers . |
| 15 | Last year it gave £64,800 , one-third of the group 's local authority aid . |
| 16 | In one year it won 6% of the market ! |
| 17 | The food was described as tasteless and monotonous , and often cold by the time it reached people housed some distance from the kitchens . |
| 18 | The idea that energy had a quantum nature married neatly enough with the view that light was a wave motion , but at the same time it set people thinking in terms of particles once more . |
| 19 | But in fact it enabled staff to come up with more appropriate answers to those problems , said Edwards . |