Example sentences of "[noun] it [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first results could be a speeding-up of drilling at the huge oilfield it recently discovered west of Shetland , according to John Browne , chief executive for worldwide exploration operations . |
| 2 | National growth was uneven ; in the north of England it quickly took root although in the northwest and in Wales it grew more slowly ; it was always weak in Liverpool . |
| 3 | For reasons to be explained , the original legislation was found to be defective , and was amended in 1976 ( and placed into the legislative context of the Public Order Act 1936 ) , but even after amendment it still gave rise to complaints that it fell short of the aspirations of its promoters in its effects . |
| 4 | Unfortunately for Rory Finegan it also allowed costs to An Bord Pleanala , the IDA and Raybestos Manhattan , estimated at £10,000 . |
| 5 | Its latest figures show that on £1.2bn of business it only made £18m profit . |
| 6 | It said that during the quarter it greatly improved product delivery time to its resellers , and recorded the highest volume quarter in its history . |
| 7 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 8 | Suddenly , the pole thumped so hard into an unseen object it almost dislodged Maggie . |
| 9 | Chances are if you bought your racket in Britain it already had strings in it — unlike in the USA where the retailer will ask you a lot of questions about how you play and then string your new frame for you . |
| 10 | told the police it never took place . |
| 11 | told the police it never took place . |
| 12 | They had such a tiny life cycle it still had trainer wheels on it . |
| 13 | The goal was doubly harmful for the way it temporarily drained confidence from a Scotland team who had started the game far from traumatised by the size of the task that confronted them . |
| 14 | When I tried to explain to them about the golf-ball it only made matters worse . |
| 15 | They can also carry on getting credit through a special ‘ debtor-in-possession ’ facility : when Campeau , a highly leveraged Canadian-owned retailer , filed for chapter 11 last year it quickly got $700m of credit , which kept its Federated and Allied stores open for business . |
| 16 | and the first sort of thing they ever had was just like a little screen it just went blip and that 's it , all they could tell you was there was something in their vicinity , it could n't tell you what direction it was or what height or anything . |
| 17 | Bella 's slander about drink baffled him , but at the same time it queerly took root , until he did indeed start boozing a good deal . |
| 18 | While this obviously placed great limitations on the evidence available to social anthropologists it also spared them.the problems of trying to find out what help they could get from documentary sources . |