Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it chose John Major to begin the work of reconciliation . |
| 2 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 3 | Two days later it elected Mikhail Gorbachev to that post . |
| 4 | She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy . |
| 5 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 6 | Its master stroke was its ‘ double cross system ’ , whereby it turned enemy spies into double agents , working for the British and feeding false information back . |
| 7 | How it suited Bram Stoker for his Transylvania . |
| 8 | In chapter 5 below , David Howell , his leading backroom boy , describes the work of the Public Sector Research Unit , how it scoured North America for business methods adaptable to Whitehall 's needs and searched for think-tanks to visit . |
| 9 | At least it forced project officers to consider the role of women . |
| 10 | At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years |
| 11 | Instead it chose Lodongiyn Tudev , hardline editor of the party newspaper . |
| 12 | The wet cobbles in the mill-yard only needed huddled operatives arriving for an 18-hour shift in their shawls , but instead it got art critics . |
| 13 | Instead it promoted free-market conditions which , it was envisaged , would stimulate an increase in opencast output , since it represented a ‘ cheap ’ source of coal whose production was ‘ in the national interest ’ . |
| 14 | Rumour of the partnership , to be known as C&M Arts , spread through the art market last autumn , when it purchased Mark Rothko 's ‘ Brown , Black and Blue ’ ( 1958 ) for $1 million at Sotheby 's evening sale on 17 November . |
| 15 | THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site . |
| 16 | The reason that Xerox finally wants out is not hard to divine : back in 1989 when it created Xerox Desktop Systems Inc , which marketed the Ventura Publisher product , it said that annual business was running at $40m . |
| 17 | France stresses that , because the European Council has the people with clout , it can propel the Community forwards — as in Brussels in 1988 , when it settled budget rows , and in Rome last October , when it gave the conference on EMU a mandate . |
| 18 | The problem emerged yesterday in the board 's report for 1988/9 when it paid record compensation of £69.4 million to 27,752 victims . |
| 19 | Rainbow acquired the piece in July when it bought Microphar SA in Paris and its US distributor ProTech Marketing which marketed a version of the dongle as its Micro Memory Key . |
| 20 | Whenever Jacob was meeting Deirdre outside college hours he waited for her at the bottom of Patrick 's Hill where it joined King Street . |
| 21 | Helping to redress the balance is G–DHCB , seen here at Lee-on-Solent where it undertook water trials during the summer months . |