Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He said he was nineteen years old ; he also said he was an orphan , but they all said that , they thought it made people pay more . |
| 32 | Thought it spelled death for her professional future . |
| 33 | I said , you know , I 'd every right to resume my own research , erm , if the Labour Party thought it owned psychoanalysis , I 'm afraid I have , have to differ . |
| 34 | The Japanese company 's Bluebird model , the first to be built at its Sunderland factory , never rated : dealers thought it lacked pzazz for executives . |
| 35 | He thought it wasted time to have official committees pre-processing options before they came before ministerial groups . |
| 36 | Such as the time when the very inebriated gentleman , at 2 a.m. , wanted to know how to stop his budgie falling off its perch , because he thought it had cramp in its legs ! |
| 37 | He thought it meant breasts . |
| 38 | from Gloucester , he thought it meant Glasgow . |
| 39 | I thought it annoyed Dad , and we 'd get kicked out . |
| 40 | Browning , who revived it in the late nineteenth century , thought it showed Smart rising from sanity to transfiguration , or , as Rossetti put it , from Earth to Heaven . |
| 41 | He was dressed all in white , and his horse was white , and even his reins ; and as he passed it grew light . |
| 42 | Although the farming community did not perhaps appreciate that the ‘ transfer of the farm ’ was a subject susceptible to training methods they all agreed it needed attention . |
| 43 | He said that when the Government realised it faced defeat on amendment 27 it had produced a second legal opinion . |
| 44 | The bank revealed it faced £864 million bad debts and 2,000 more staff would go by Christmas . |
| 45 | So er and ripped off some letters blah blah blah , so that 's ongoing , you know it 's going to be replaced and the er people who did it admitted liability and so forth . |
| 46 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 47 | The ringing seemed to go on and on and when at last a voice answered it took Jinny by surprise . |
| 48 | If she left it unopened Rosie would face it when she got back from lunch and Rain could not be that heartless . |
| 49 | The CSO cautioned it regarded comparisons of the volume figures as distorted by the impact of the dock strike on August and September returns . |
| 50 | Motorola Inc 's UDS Motorola in Huntsville , Alabama said it cut prices by up to 25% on several V.32 and V.32 bis modems , effective immediately : the list prices of the V.32L , V.3225L , V.3227L and V.3229L CCITT V.32 and V.32 bis compliant modems , have been cut by $200 each . |
| 51 | They said it meant death . |
| 52 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost out on a major attraction to the North-East . |
| 53 | And Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , said it meant Darlington had lost the chance of a major tourist attraction . |
| 54 | The Science Museum , which owns the airfield , admitted it 's had to increase the amount it charges the Association , and said it regretted plans to pull out . |
| 55 | Got on one tube and that broke down from the end of she 's at Liverpool Street then she had to go different end to Oxford Street , but she ended up in Charing Cross then she got on another tube line at Charing Cross and then that broke down , so she said it took hours , then she gave a taxi , had to get a taxi back to Oxford Street and , and from Oxford Street back to Waterloo and it 's four pound and he gave her a change for a tenner instead , and she gave him a twenty pound note but , you know she 's absolutely haggard , so I said it 's just as well she can have a cup of tea before she goes , I just told her briefly about that so , erm , Carla 's a bit late ai n't she ? |
| 56 | Last night AA Roadwatch urged drivers to take care in the icy conditions and said it anticipated problems with heavy traffic during the holiday period . |
| 57 | Announcing half time results yesterday , the food retailer said it spent £384m in the first half of the year improving the quality and efficiency of the business . |
| 58 | The Ministry of Agriculture said it believed hemp , which can grow as high as 15ft , would be a minority crop and would not become a common feature of Britain 's rural landscape . |
| 59 | While Nottinghamshire said it had messages of support from local authorities across the country , legal experts sided with the Appeal Court . |
| 60 | The Iranian Foreign Ministry said it summoned representatives from Western capitals , where the incidents took place , yesterday to deliver a ‘ strongly-worded protest ’ . |