Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly it soared forty feet up into the air , singing as it accelerated , a clear , far-carrying song : ‘ Tseep , tseep , tseep . ’
2 It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth .
3 Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction .
4 Only it worked both ways .
5 So it stayed 70 years on the floor .
6 Nevertheless it took many centuries for Edinburgh to become unequivocally the royal and national capital .
7 And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’
8 What is more it had gold tassels , a feature only found in America , nowhere else in the Salvation Army world .
9 Probably it originated many times by independent ‘ mutation ’ .
10 Yeah , it 's out of print , and erm , but I though it raised interesting issues , anyway .
11 Previously it had taken Ford 14 hours to assemble a car ; now it took 93 minutes .
12 Now it took several years for er the new incentive scheme to be introduced throughout the whole of the works and I think during my last discussion you know , I did indicate that the fitters for example , you know , were about the last group to go on .
13 Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management .
14 Originally it covered all gifts , but since 1986 it is restricted to gifts on death or those made within seven years of death .
15 Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg .
16 Luckily it had short sleeves , and she knew that the subtle shade of pale aquamarine suited her colouring .
17 Then it became ten performances , same fee .
18 The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo .
19 If such propitiation did not result in the sewing-up of any chinks , at least it stopped new chinks from showing through .
20 There it affected many trees and shrubs , including the valuable timber tree Ougenia oojeinensis .
21 stated that it was nice to hear from the USA , and emphasised that there it took four years to qualify as an embalmer and wondered what students would think of that .
22 Instead it had different functions .
23 Now India was an extremely poor country in nineteen fifty and still is , yet it had six times as many tractors per agricultural acre as China .
24 Yet it took ten years for the pope to arrive at the point he had desired in 1199 , where he could treat the parties as equals , the one and the other , alterum et alterum as he says , and make his decision in Rome .
25 She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh .
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