Example sentences of "[vb past] [subord] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 2 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 3 | SunSelect Inc chief Carl Ledbetter says the company does n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc : WABI has n't been turned into a product yet but something 's expected shortly and it should be bundled into Solaris this year ; meanwhile , Quorum Software Systems Inc will put Equal , its Macintosh application adaptor on Solaris-on-Sparc , and ship it later this quarter , giving Sun access to Mac versions of Word and Excel . |
| 4 | SunSelect chief Carl Ledbetter says they do n't know yet what Windows and MS-DOS applications wo n't run on WABI , the Windows-on-Unix software it bought when it bought Praxsys Inc . |
| 5 | Meanwhile the country loses control over vital assets , as Mexico did when it exchanged shares in one of its biggest manufacturing companies — Grupo Alfa , against a reduction of several hundred million dollars in its debts . |
| 6 | I feel today the excitement of that encounter almost as keenly as I did when it took place over fifty years ago . |
| 7 | All in all , the people 's party may not have played quite the ace it thought it had when it chose Smith as its leader . |
| 8 | The headlights of the taxi-van behind us flashed as it hit bumps in the road and the interior lit up the faces of the men in the van with me . |