Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 2 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 3 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 4 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 5 | In the Tokugawa period it enjoyed some autonomy , and was permitted a certain degree of self-reliance and self-government . |
| 6 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 7 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
| 8 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 9 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 10 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 11 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 12 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 13 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 14 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 15 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 16 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 17 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 18 | Recently books have been written querying the efficiency and use of Bomber Command aircraft in the night bombing of Germany , and asking whether it did help in the final defeat or whether in fact it made little difference . |
| 19 | If we go on to books erm , I think that Longman performance is exceptionally good erm , of course for book business it 's very much first half , second half , most of the profit coming in second half , but er , erm , Longman only dropping seven percent on the year before seems to me a particularly good performance given the environment and in fact it generated more operating cash flow than the year before . |
| 20 | In fact it took some time to make effective progress , in part because of institutional changes ; Lord Portal replaced Lord Reith , and in 1943 a separate Ministry of Town and Country Planning was set up . |
| 21 | ‘ The plaintiff admits for the purposes of this action , that on 2 March 1988 it agreed to accept a surrender of the lease from the first defendant and that by its agents G. Moore , certified bailiffs , and as advised by the third party it recorded this surrender in a memorandum of 2 March 1988 . |