Example sentences of "[vb past] it [vb past] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries was strongly in demand after results today showed it had made record half-year profits . |
| 2 | Beecham claimed it had lost $24 million because of ‘ significant errors ’ in an over-optimistic YCS forecast , based on a Laboratory Test Market study , of the prospects for Delicare Cold Water Wash . |
| 3 | The Nuneaton and Bedworth Council claimed it had received letters of protest from residents opposed to a trial scheme to allow fishing on three lakes in the borough . |
| 4 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 5 | He knew it had featured Resenence Jeopardy , but the details were indistinct . |
| 6 | Well it 's years since I thought it had gone bust |
| 7 | A month ago , the UN thought it had persuaded Iran and Iraq to agree on a mixed military commission to settle some of the problems along their 750-mile border . |
| 8 | The court thought it had nailed Mr Nadir 's feet to the floor by making him post a record-breaking £3.5m ( $1.5m ) . |
| 9 | Borland also announced it had won shareholder approval for its reincorporation in Delaware , a preliminary to the company seeking a US listing , probably on NASDAQ . |
| 10 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 11 | BRUSSELS ( AP ) — An unknown group called ‘ Young Palestine , Proud and Free ’ , in a letter to Belgian newspapers yesterday , said it had killed Joseph Wybran , a leading Belgian Jew . |
| 12 | Asda said it had cut prices by up to 50 per cent on more than 1,500 lines . |
| 13 | I said it had done Eddie a power of good . |
| 14 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 15 | Late last night , the Hungarian news agency MTI said it had received telephone calls reporting more than 30 killings in clashes in Cluj , while another source reported clashes in Arad , 60 miles north of Timisoara , where demonstrators were massacred last week . |
| 16 | The Northern Echo , based in Darlington , Co Durham , yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from a former soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ shambles ’ of Ulster security . |
| 17 | The Northern Echo yesterday said it had received pictures of 150 terrorist suspects from an ex-soldier who said he wished to illustrate ‘ the shambles of security in Northern Ireland ’ . |
| 18 | It said it had contacted Greece and Kenya . |
| 19 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
| 20 | He said it had taken years . |
| 21 | BR said it had taken steps to control overtime and to ensure engineers were taking breaks in the hard pressed Southern Region , where skills shortages are most acute . |
| 22 | At that point , only one authority said it had offered training to staff on sex and sexuality , and many workers felt unable to talk directly to young people about sex . |
| 23 | Officers of the Muslim-led Bosnian government said it had urged President Alija Izetbegovic to return home immediately from Geneva , where he met international mediators , to underline the gravity of the crisis in the enclave . |
| 24 | Keith Hayes , treasurer of Middlesbrough and District Philatelic Society , which hosted this year 's convention , said it had attracted dealers from all over the North from the Tweed to the Humber . |