Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Fire Brigade was to continue as a Local Volunteer Force until the 1939–45 war when it became part of the National Fire Service . |
| 2 | Upon the intervention of a butcher and his mastiff dog , one of the bulls escaped into the town where it tossed men , women and children . |
| 3 | And course we 're doing a lot of counting today this wrist is a you know I do n't mind that you see what did that wrist was that elbow I had to have a second operation on it , in the arm up here because er I had to have some bone taken away in the elbow course it stretched guiders but they also erm disturbed the wrist joint because it was in plaster like that stretched round and disturbed the wrist joint and I ke it 's it weakened it and it 's only just it 's only just this what last nine months that it 's that it 's really started to effect this but I know what it is that 's because I keep going out doing the odd jobs |
| 4 | On one corner of the site the river had eaten into the bank and pulled part of the masonry of an out-building down into the current where it lay half-submerged , growing gardens of weeds . |
| 5 | Unix System Labs says Computer Reseller News was ‘ looking way beyond its headlights — or ours ’ last week when it said USL may adopt all or part of the Open Software Foundation 's Mach 3 microkernel . |
| 6 | ENDS magazine wrote in January 1988 , ‘ The government 's retreat in its interpretation of the 1980 EEC Directive on drinking water quality in the face of legal challenges by the European Commission turned into a rout this month when it withdrew permission for 48 water supplies to exceed the EEC limit . |
| 7 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 8 | There have been several cases in the past where it appeared people were acting out violent scenes from films . |
| 9 | THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site . |
| 10 | The book created a sensation in the summer when it portrayed Diana trapped in a sham marriage . |
| 11 | It is the only gadget I have ever bought which actually got pushed under the settee where it gathered dust for several years before I really came to terms with it . |
| 12 | Candidates actually attend for an important examination in the afternoon when it took place in the morning ! |
| 13 | They were put on the same strip CD had used , and second time around it helped spinners almost from the outset . |
| 14 | People were stopping outside the office where it took place and whispering to each other — someone had even placed a bouquet of flowers at the door that morning . |
| 15 | In December 1927 , while he was in the midst of his darkness , and in june 1928 when he was better , the House of Commons rejected a proposal , carried by large majorities in the Church bodies , for a new prayer book , which was the old prayer book , from the age of King Charles II , modestly revised in a pastoral spirit long after the time when it needed revision . |