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

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1 In 1991 it assumed responsibility for its own catering , with total revenue increasing by 60 per cent partly as a result .
2 In 1991 it received payment from a client for work done and billed ( but without a VAT charge ) prior to October 1986 .
3 In the period 1637–1767 it furnished accommodation for smaller diets of representatives of the Confederate Forest Cantons ; its assembly room still boasts a handsome tiled heating stove of the period .
4 When the United States regulated its coinage under the legislation of 1792 it displayed independence by designating the silver dollar as the basic unit .
5 Throughout the '60s it seemed Lotus could do no wrong .
6 Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc , announced in 1987 it found gold three miles west of Omagh , Co .
7 In April 1987 it introduced evening trading sessions in US T-bond contracts to enable Japanese investors to hedge their cash market positions before Tokyo opened for business .
8 It was very difficult to keep in working order , and when the emperor Charles V saw it in Pavia in 1529 it needed repair .
9 But when county boundaries were reorganised in nineteen seventy four it became part of the new county of avon .
10 In 1988 it played host to a visiting exhibition of impressionist paintings borrowed from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad .
11 The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row .
12 In 1944 it took courage to write so favourably about Pound ; and it may even be that Phyllis Bottome foresaw , and was trying to guard against , the peril that Pound would be in as soon as hostilities should be over .
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