Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But John McQueen learnt it had more serious effects .
2 He could n't read , he assumed it said twenty cubic metres which it usually does .
3 The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes .
4 Friends of the Earth said it proved Nuclear Electric " lives in never-never land " .
5 The group , one of Europe 's leaders in the field , said it lost 650 billion lire ( £284 million ) last year , compared with 460 billion lire ( £201 million ) in 1991 , because of heavy competition and the international economic slowdown .
6 Mr Millan personally was in favour of a large degree of devolution and said it helped European regional policy to work more effectively .
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