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

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1 That 's how long it took Leicester to find a winner .
2 1978 's ‘ Kaya ’ was a massive seller , delivering ‘ Satisfy My Soul ’ and ‘ Is This Love ’ to the charts , but generally it found Marley coasting .
3 And always it gave time to fit the second shaft and loose the second volley , and redouble the boiling turmoil that was held at a distance by nothing more deadly — but there was nothing more deadly ! — than cloth-yard shafts of wood and steel flighted with a handful of feathers .
4 LASMO announces that yesterday it filed documentation relating to the proposed listing of its Ordinary Shares on the New York Stock Exchange ( NYSE ) with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington , together with documentation relating to the proposed issuance of up to US$150 million cumulative dollar preference shares and up to US$250 million long-term fixed rate debt securities ( Yankee bonds ) .
5 During the 18 years they had lived in Sion House in Tunbridge Wells they had grown accustomed to its neo-classical spaciousness , but since two of their four children had married and left home it made sense to move to somewhere smaller .
6 The RapidCad is designed as a user upgrade so to see how easy it was to fit and how well it worked Intel made a RapidCad set available to install and use on my trusty Dabs 386. machine .
7 Sometimes it took weeks to persuade an owner to surrender his pet .
8 stuffed and then it had sequins sewn and that .
9 Then it used fur to cover the skin .
10 Course it worried Ange look cos she do n't want to go back in the office like last time .
11 While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition .
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