Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 2 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 3 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 4 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 5 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 6 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 7 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 8 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
| 9 | Ramsay made a swift decision — and it demanded some resolution , since it would entail cost . |
| 10 | And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense . |
| 11 | Granted , Vitor continued to blame her , but it represented some kind of progress . |
| 12 | The famous Marx Brothers ' contract scene in A Night at the Opera ( " The party of the first part shall be known in this contract as the party of the first part " ) exaggerated the worst excesses of legal drafting , but it had some basis in fact . |
| 13 | That 's right , yeah so I eventually managed it , but it took some negotiating . |
| 14 | But it took some while for the tractors to become available in other markets . |
| 15 | And then again I tell you you could use the enema , and that er but er mostly it would you know you would get right again , but it took some doing , not easy . |
| 16 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 17 | It was marvellous that it was all over , but it took some time to sink in , and in any event had no immediate effect on most of us . |
| 18 | Relatively little could be done for the first year or two ; Pitt had a view of the war that stretched over the whole world , but it took some time to prepare the resources to give effect to this vision . |
| 19 | But it took some time before any clear view emerged as to what these new arrangements should be . |
| 20 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 21 | But it took some time for our achievement to sink in . |
| 22 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 23 | The hill fort at Dun Bhorairaig at Dunlossit would seem to have been a broch from the description of it by Thomas Pennant in 1772 , but it suffered some reconstruction in Medieval times , it has been suggested to turn it into a lookout. which the magnificent view of the whole of the Sound of Islay would support . |
| 24 | This was a rather simplistic interpretation of the many disagreements which affected political life , but it contained some truth and helped to explain why France was unable to create a British or American-style two-party system : the question of authoritarianism and democracy in the constitution , which had divided Frenchmen since the Revolution , had again served to divide the country in the constitutional debates of 1946 ; the role of the Roman Catholic Church in national life divided the Christian Democrats from the other leading parties ; and questions of class conflict were particularly apparent in early 1947 in differences over wage levels . |