Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [subord] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eastman Kodak put Interactive on the block at least six months ago because it did not fit its core business interests . |
| 2 | RISC watcher Andrew Allison remembered FRISC as a merchant chip attempt and says he laughed at Micron months ago when it announced the subsidiary because it did n't have the resources or market presence to pull off a new proprietary architecture . |
| 3 | Partners in the south coast firm of Hook Harris & Co , which hit the headlines two months ago when it entered into an individual voluntary arrangement with its creditors , have bought the two main practices from the joint supervisors of the IVA . |
| 4 | The aircraft , worth millions of pounds , was on a routine training mission when it came down six miles from its base at RAF Upper Heyford.Eyewitnesses have described seeing the plane trailing smoke and flames just before it crashed . |
| 5 | The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ; |
| 6 | And I cleared the lot except six baskets and they were all in good condition , so I was glad of these six baskets really because it helped you to give them one or two more . |
| 7 | The company argued that it was given a stay of execution by other bankers even though it had defaulted on loans connected with its American Heileman brewing operations . |
| 8 | Well , no one was going to call them cheapskates even if it meant staying at home for the rest of the decade . |
| 9 | It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star . |
| 10 | When Madame shook the bucket you turned out your pockets even if it meant walking home . |
| 11 | The emancipators thought a commune could serve administrative and judicial purposes only if it embraced a coherent area of peasant settlement . |
| 12 | It was a pity that it would be blown to atoms long before it got there . |
| 13 | A few weeks later when it came to the 1985 Budget , Nigel set himself the same goal . |
| 14 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 15 | The NUR had an unfortunate experience , apparently , a few years back when it made an unwise sponsorship . |
| 16 | The Bank of Scotland had frozen the overdraft of Monktonhall Mineworkers Ltd some weeks ago when it emerged that debts of about £1.7 million had accrued . |
| 17 | Indeed , there was a period about three years ago when it looked as though even 35mm slides might have found a match with the introduction of devices like the VideoShow system which project the image on the computer 's screen directly onto a conventional viewing screen . |
| 18 | The Methodists first established a chapel for worship in 1828 , in a small building later converted into the Oddfellows Hall , and so named until a couple of years ago when it became a private residence . |
| 19 | ACT was a computer bureau and systems house until five years ago when it started selling an American machine called the ADDS . |
| 20 | Well , er , I became er , unhappy with the communist party many years ago because it did n't follow the philosophical teaching on which works , the erm , erm , dialectical materialism . |
| 21 | If Telecom really wanted to get a cost-effective solution to a 60,000 square foot head office requirement , it could simply have bought Montrose House on Adelaide Road two years earlier than it bought the Ballsbridge site . |
| 22 | It was a face that Joseph and Flavia Sherman would have recognized instantly from their encounter with the Annamese journalist in the palace of Khai Dinh at Tet exactly five years earlier because it had changed little , if at all , in the interval of time . |
| 23 | Quiss waited for the scullion to draw breath , and looked round the kitchens again as it did so . |
| 24 | Look through the south door to the garden and there , across the moat , the formal garden of yews and allées stretches towards the downs just as it did when it was first laid out . |
| 25 | In November 1984 the UKCC addressed the professions directly when it published and circulated the second edition of the Code . |
| 26 | Kuwait had been wary of Iraqi territorial ambitions ever since it gained independence from the UK in 1961 . |
| 27 | Her verbal spontaneity ruffled far too many feathers even if it attracted admiration from thousands of radicals and feminists . |
| 28 | ‘ But I am not bitter over how Sam Hammam handled things even though it had all become a bit of a nightmare for me . |
| 29 | But it did not , at any rate for the peasantry , which on the whole refused to turn itself into a flourishing class of commercial farmers even when it had the chance to do so . |
| 30 | The party cell was afraid to have open meetings mainly because it feared criticism from what it called the ‘ kulaks ' . |