Example sentences of "[pron] it [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Current Manager George Thomson said the celebrations had given staff an opportunity to reflect on the Branch 's long history during which it had played an important role in providing financial services to the community . |
| 2 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 3 | The second National Government , by contrast , resulted from a general election in which it had inflicted a massive defeat on the Labour party . |
| 4 | After jilting Touche Ross , with which it had planned a worldwide merger , it married its UK practice with the UK practice of Coopers & Lybrand . |
| 5 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 6 | The strong achievement orientation of Japanese society and the degree to which it has become a genuine educational meritocracy have led many to assume that this aim has been achieved . |
| 7 | Teesside Women has celebrated its first six months of existence , during which it has provided a wide range of meetings and workshops for any women who live , work or have an interest in the area . |
| 8 | Hall ( 1988 ) , in particular , has argued that the power of that brand of New-Right Conservatism known as Thatcherism consists largely of the skilful way in which it has disconnected a number of themes — self-help , anti-statism , public order , anti-trade unionism , nationalism , share ownership — from the basically bourgeois discourse in which they have been traditionally lodged . |
| 9 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 10 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 11 | It it has got a real purpose and it does tie up very well with erm velocity and |
| 12 | Er And it it 's reckoned a hundred and sixty thousand people die a year , of smoking related diseases . |
| 13 | The only problem with it it 's lost a lot of power . |
| 14 | I mean yes of course we should live harmoniously together er who would y'know , sector of those people who have taken advantage of the right to buy and and so on and so forth but we talking about housing management in about housing management costs and if you have an estate of y'know being repaired similar houses which a lot of our estates are , it makes sense that they 're managed as it were centrally er and because that 's the most efficient way of doing it erm if you have a variety of different landlords in er one estate or one street and all the houses are similar , when it comes to things like modernisation and so forth it it 's duplicated a great deal of er er er of work and it is not cost efficient and it does n't make any common sense at all . |
| 15 | Er that that I really said it it 's got a history on to an ending with the bit I 've referred to . |
| 16 | Er , I 'll tell you what it 's had a right old hammering since you 've been here , no ? |