Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it chose John Major to begin the work of reconciliation . |
| 2 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 3 | Two days later it elected Mikhail Gorbachev to that post . |
| 4 | She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy . |
| 5 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 6 | At least it forced project officers to consider the role of women . |
| 7 | At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years |
| 8 | Instead it chose Lodongiyn Tudev , hardline editor of the party newspaper . |
| 9 | The wet cobbles in the mill-yard only needed huddled operatives arriving for an 18-hour shift in their shawls , but instead it got art critics . |
| 10 | Instead it promoted free-market conditions which , it was envisaged , would stimulate an increase in opencast output , since it represented a ‘ cheap ’ source of coal whose production was ‘ in the national interest ’ . |