Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two known meetings have so far taken place between both party leaders , with a whirlwind of protest from unionists when they issued a joint statement before the elections , while denying it reflected any form of electoral pact . |
| 2 | ‘ I expect it had some help , then , ’ said Dorcas . |
| 3 | Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw . |
| 4 | THE US Secretary of State , James Baker , hinted yesterday that the US withheld military support for Tuesday 's failed coup in Panama because it believed it had little chance of success . |
| 5 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 6 | DEC says it delayed any announcement until now so there would be meat on the bones , not just promises . |
| 7 | Praxis says it took less time to install the ANDF version of the program than the 15 minutes it takes to compile the C sources of Wingz . |
| 8 | By 1911 , when Italy 's newly launched first Dreadnought battleship was significantly named the Dante Alighieri , it claimed 50,000 members ; but although it enjoyed considerable official support it had little influence on government policy . |
| 9 | Perhaps the court would have accepted it had that stipulation been explicit . |
| 10 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 11 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 12 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 13 | Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive . |
| 14 | The magazine , Politis , claimed it had more evidence after the French Environment Ministry dismissed the report but adding that it was dangerous to dig in the recently closed dump because it ‘ would be like opening a tomb ’ . |
| 15 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 16 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 17 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 18 | 84% felt it covered all aspects associated with the subject matter . |
| 19 | I thought it required more teachers caring about their subjects as much as he obviously did . |
| 20 | At the thought that I could ever have imagined it had any value . |
| 21 | The marriage game was played for the highest stakes by kings and emperors and counts ; there is no reason to suppose it reached these proportions elsewhere in the social scale . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't think it made any difference to my career or Peter 's , ’ says Finney . |
| 23 | And the press did come down , I mean it got some coverage . |
| 24 | I mean it had that sort of look to it . |
| 25 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 26 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 27 | ‘ I think it happened this way . |
| 28 | ‘ The police seem to think it happened some time after midnight last night . ’ |
| 29 | I was actually gon na open it put some bleach round the edge . |
| 30 | Earlier another Bond director Mr Tony Oates said the corporation vigorously denied it had any knowledge of the alleged phone-bugging operation . |