Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 2 | Its yellow eyes were looking at me ; its mouth opened and it made strange sounds at me . |
| 3 | The theory was a good scientific theory , in the sense described in Chapter 1 : it was simple and it made definite predictions that could be tested by observation . |
| 4 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 5 | One shop window in Covent Garden was devoted entirely to a display of this book , and it received coveted reviews in the quality press . |
| 6 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 7 | Mixed development met the sociological dictates of urbanity and community ; it met the planning critics of inter-war sprawl ; and it met architectural requirements of variety in materials ( concrete , brick , wood , pebbles and strong colours ) . |
| 8 | The declaration on the formation of the FRY stated that the FRY would be ready to recognize the former Yugoslav republics which had declared independence , after " outstanding questions " had been negotiated , and it denied territorial claims . |
| 9 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 10 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 11 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 12 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 13 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 14 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 15 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 16 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 17 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 18 | He established himself in the heart of Sicily , near Etna , about 449 , and it took several years and several expeditions by Syracuse to dislodge him . |
| 19 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 20 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 21 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 22 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 23 | The combination of bishopric and monastery was one of the main results of the tenth-century monastic revival , and it had tenuous threads going back to the seventh century . |
| 24 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 25 | Despite some significant developments by BBC and Marconi engineers , the system still did not give better quality than 78rpm discs ; it only succeeded because it gave longer running-time , and it had lower running-costs because the tape could be magnetically erased and reused . |
| 26 | And it had other things going for it too . |
| 27 | This is the view cogently expressed by David Holbrook and it had many supporters among numbers in the National Association of Teachers of English . |
| 28 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 29 | But a frontal attack in the face of barbed wire and entrenched machine-guns was unlikely to succeed , and it guaranteed heavy losses . |
| 30 | 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 . |