Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few months ago it seemed that oil markets were in for a chill spring . |
| 2 | The only exception was in war periods when it became customary to meet part of the additional spending through borrowing . |
| 3 | Years later it seemed reasonable to identify the ghost train with nearby trains on well concealed tracks linking Dalton-in-Furness with Askam-in-Furness and Barrow-in-Furness respectively , but this explanation did not entirely remove the doubts and fears experienced even in retrospect . |
| 4 | Years ago it housed all the village activities including lantern slides , then moving pictures when they came into being . |
| 5 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 6 | When he first became the candidate more than two years ago it caused considerable controversy . |
| 7 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 8 | Broomfield and Alexander , a seven partner firm based in south Wales , had been the club 's auditors for many years when it hit financial difficulties . |
| 9 | ‘ I can still remember the matches where it went wrong . |
| 10 | The process went so far in Algeria earlier this year that the army cancelled the results of general elections when it became clear that the Islamic Salvation Front would win an overwhelming victory . |
| 11 | Furthermore , in common with other non-Catholic teachers , they considered that at times when it became essential to redeploy teachers , it would be non-Catholics that would be first in line for re-deployment . |
| 12 | But there were also times when it descended low . |
| 13 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |