Example sentences of "[vb past] it [verb] [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 2 | Airport operator BAA reported it handled 6.8m passengers at its seven airports in May , 1993 2.9pc increase on the May , 1992 figure . |
| 3 | He wrote out cheques from the account to pay his credit card debts , rent arrears and he also used it to clear phone bills and part of £500 taxi bill . |
| 4 | VARI is not a new process — Lotus first used it to make Elite bodies in 1974 . |
| 5 | The Court , however , ruled on March 19 , 1991 , that the Commission had been within in its powers in invoking Article 90 of the Treaty of Rome , which allowed it to override government objections in such cases [ see p. 36154 ] . |
| 6 | He said it contained engine components . |
| 7 | They said it gave people ideas , Dorcas gathered , which were not a good thing unless they were the right kind of ideas . |