Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , they , remember last , end of last winter when it got mild after the cold spell , they were building their nests and then we got all that cold weather again , all the , all the fledglings were dead . |
| 2 | The GPS system made its public debut in the recent Gulf War when it enabled allied troops to navigate at night across hundreds of miles of desert to within a few metres . |
| 3 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 4 | These would inevitably introduce distortion , noise and hiss and the signal would gradually become degraded to the point where it became unintelligible . |
| 5 | For British golf fanatics , there has perhaps never been a more nerve-wracking day than when , with only four points to get in the final singles , there was never a moment when it appeared likely that we could get them . |
| 6 | Hungary lost much foreign creditor confidence as a consequence of the general deterioration in its economic performance just as it approached a period when it needed substantial foreign loans to service its debts , finance its convertible currency account deficit and replenish hard currency reserves . |
| 7 | This moderate system of government was frequently adopted by Charles , who early on in his reign had recognised the wisdom of leaving local leaders in place wherever it seemed possible and beneficial to his own aims . |
| 8 | Maxim scouted the cottage to make sure it was empty then helped George over the comer of the dry-stone wall where it seemed strongest and guided him under a face-high clothes-line strung across the little lawn . |
| 9 | The SDLP retained its hold in the Northlands area where it returned five out of the seven seats available . |
| 10 | It now seems likely that a ‘ joint list ’ of green candidates for local government posts will only be submitted in the Paris region , and the Alsace , An agreement reached in October 1982 that would have linked the Amis De La Terre ( AT ) , the Confederation Ecologiste and the Mouvement D'Ecologie Politique ( Now VPE ) disintegrated last month when it became clear that the VPE wanted to have a dominant say over its two partners . |
| 11 | Head towards the centre where it got busier . |
| 12 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |
| 13 | We 've a case where it cost ten thousand pounds . |
| 14 | As a mass medium nationally it achieved full status only in 1959 when it started printing in London , dropped Manchester from the mast-head and was distributed nationally like the other Fleet Street dailies . |
| 15 | When the first draft of Li 's report was presented a fortnight ago it incorporated many of the demands for faster reform voiced earlier this year by China 's elder statesman , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 16 | Once a three-way division had been agreed in principle , each of the three brothers spent the rest of the summer in consolidating his position where it seemed weakest . |
| 17 | The slide-car was as old as history yet it had one advantage : the farmer could carry loads on gradients where it would be dangerous to take a wheeled cart . |
| 18 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 19 | Management board chairman Hans-Olaf Henkel said that transfer reduced its extraordinary loss to $562m last year when it had extraordinary expenditure of $1,134m . |
| 20 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 21 | Its members organized aid for the Republican government while its leaders felt unable to do so until the following year when it became clear that neither Germany nor Italy had the slightest intention of discouraging aid to Franco . |
| 22 | It was an excellent vehicle for an emerging West European voice on defence issues as distinct from a NATO position in order ( with France still outside NATO ) to establish some kind of common ground at a time when it seemed possible that the two superpowers might actually manage to reach an agreement on levels of nuclear armaments that might not take Western European interests into account . |