Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was a it was a very big bakery it had three floors and on the bottom floor was that 's where they done the bread and rolls .
2 At auction it took five agonising minutes and £700 to secure the house .
3 Once she had recovered full consciousness it became clear that she had entirely lost the power of speech .
4 Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb .
5 It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating .
6 In carrying through its programme it honoured certain political debts , especially to the miners [ Morgan , 1984 ] .
7 But to the Hebrew mind it covered all human relationships .
8 With a boat neck it had short sleeves , and Kate bit her lip as she realised it was going to have a pretty powerful impact .
9 With its removeable roof stored in the roof it looked great , but the word from Pininfarina and General Motors Europe was not promising .
10 After much uncertainty it became plain that the Russians could not expect Mr Aziz to return to Moscow until late on Thursday ; he was expected to go at once to see Mikhail Gorbachev .
11 Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians .
12 The research it funded all took place in laboratories inside hospitals and there was nothing tangible to show for it .
13 At first , researchers attempted to place this style in the area from which it was assumed to originate — perhaps Persia , China or Central Asia — but through historical research it became clear that this was based on the false premise that the cloth was made in the original style of a certain group of people .
14 Because of the poor response to gluten free diet and the presence of lymphoma it seemed reasonable to consider that the malabsorption was as a result of an enteropathy associated with the lymphoma ( EATCL ) rather than simple coeliac disease .
15 After the restart it took Red Alligator longer to break clear of the freshmen .
16 In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was .
17 In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned .
18 He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge .
19 Despite its apparent relativism , in practice it defined alternative centres of cultural authority primarily in terms of their difference from the norm of English culture , not in their uniqueness and their discontinuities .
20 Its inclusion in the categories of capital murder had originally been defended by the Government on the grounds that the presence of a gun was an indication of a pre-meditated offence , but in practice it proved impossible to maintain the distinction between deliberate killings committed with a gun , or a knife or other weapon .
21 In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition .
22 In this light it looked black .
23 At first light it became clear that HMS Impregnable had carried five miles across shoal water from the Dean to a position about half way between Langstone and Chichester harbours , approximately half a mile from Hayling Island .
24 At half-time it looked bad for Town but they came bouncing back with two goals in a minute …
25 It did so not only through the stringent processing of applications and the guidance it offered individual institutions , but also through more general analysis of the problems faced by institutions making the transition from ‘ monotechnic ’ to diversified colleges .
26 Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read .
27 He was reminded of something he had read somewhere : that it was seldom wise to return to any former haunt hoping to recapture the same pleasure it had first given , because it was sure to be different and disappointing .
28 The deficit , according to the Finance Ministry , represented 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) — a figure it believed acceptable to the IMF .
29 The Labour Party 's 1,300-member central committee convened in Tel Aviv on March 12 and voted overwhelmingly to give the party 's executive committee ( comprising its 39 Knesset members and a further 87 senior officials ) authority to take whatever action it thought necessary to advance the peace process .
30 Temperatures were in the high seventies and with the absence of any wind it felt sticky and humid .
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