Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vessel was said to have been intelligence gathering and the damage it sustained caused it to release oil and form another , though smaller , slick to float about the Gulf . |
| 2 | I opened my eyes eventually and took the compass out of my jeans pocket , where I 'd stowed it to have hands free for standing up . |
| 3 | And er my chum 's mother , she was a forewoman French polisher and he asked her to come and er work along with him you know , but it was I mean that was during the depression years , that was in the the twenties right through to the you know the The first bright spot was when the Queen Mary got started it gave people And then of course , just after that , things was beginning to pick up , but it was really preparing for war . |
| 4 | The library committee had found other staff very responsive to such ideas and a staff workshop had been planned , although industrial action had prevented it taking place . |
| 5 | Years later one of Cahiers ' most influential critics , Jean-Luc Godard , admitted that none of them had really believed in the theory , but had used it to draw attention to themselves . |
| 6 | The NPFL 's advance had enabled it to secure control of the port of Buchanan , 100 km south-east of Monrovia , after fierce fighting on May 23 . |
| 7 | The intimate relationship of Blackpool with the Wakes Weeks towns had enabled it to raise capital for its piers , Winter Gardens and other improvements . |
| 8 | The company 's lawyers contended during a trial in state court that Basinger , 39 , whose credits include Batman and My Stepmother Is an Alien , had caused it to lose $5-10 million . |
| 9 | As for France Telecom , Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said he had asked it consider partners for its international expansion . |
| 10 | The in-house survey referred to above found that 78 per cent of the weekend guests had gone to the hotel because they had read it offered leisure facilities . |