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

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1 Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’
2 It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth .
3 Apparently it began some time last night . ’
4 The newly styled firm of G. & J. Cary continued at 86 St James 's Street until 1850 , although apparently it ceased cartographic publication c .1846 .
5 Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her .
6 He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory .
7 As it went down it tripped two levers or weighbridges which by means of linkwork connections released a gate at the top of the wheel so as to let it move on by just one scoop .
8 I 'm not trying to tell my life story , I have n't got one yet ( perhaps it began last week ? )
9 Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction .
10 Only it worked both ways .
11 Frustratingly , however , the IPG was unable to view these publications in advance and so it had little idea as to how useful they would be .
12 Cleo Huggins made a tree that had another little notch on top , so it had this kind of Arabic feel .
13 Theatre , in past centuries , might have counted as a mass medium : it was an effective way of spreading ideas , and so it suffered official censorship ( not abolished until the 1960s ) .
14 So it stayed 70 years on the floor .
15 So it proved last night .
16 Because i i they though it was in competition with other varieties around and it something t It was n't necessarily to do with the fact that erm they though it was less it held less prestige in the community .
17 Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital .
18 Thus it seemed that physics was more mature then chemistry , and had already left behind the stage of effervescent and explosive progress in which that science was still so visibly engaged .
19 While that was a brilliant evocation of living by your wits in or near a New York gutter , which pushed out several boundaries — largely sexual — in relation to the old Hollywood code of conduct , there was a degree of tameness in comparison to the anti-heroes created in Easy Rider ; Fonda , Hopper and especially Nicholson were used as role models for many future films , and thus it broke new ground .
20 The data was submitted on a confidential basis , because of the possibility of future publication , and so it is not possible to ascertain whether or not it had any influence on the deliberations of the Review body , but their conclusions on the quality of post-graduate geological research undertaken in Dundee and Strathclyde Universities were exactly in line with the quantitative findings described later .
21 And even if it was not it allowed both sides an extra nine months in which to strengthen their positions .
22 And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’
23 Yesterday it added another country to its list with an order to produce nearly 5m passports for Lithuania .
24 Yesterday it emerged that EMAP had lifted its stake to 10.3 per cent , buying a further 200,000 shares .
25 What is more it had gold tassels , a feature only found in America , nowhere else in the Salvation Army world .
26 As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies .
27 Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament .
28 Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ .
29 Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way .
30 More hearteningly it showed that teasing seemed to decrease as pupils got to know each other better as classmates , and despite the possibility of teasing most of the children interviewed welcomed the social breadth of the integrated setting .
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