Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By the 18th century the castle was beginning to fall into disrepair , and in the 19th century it changed hands several times .
2 In the fourth quarter last year Informix had a 25% pre-tax profit and in the recently completed first quarter it posted 23% , White said .
3 In its first year it provided training opportunities for more than 4,500 people and invested in a wide range of small and medium-sized businesses .
4 It is said that one of the merits of ‘ Documenta ’ this time round is that , with four much-travelled curators , it is truly international in its scope , and that for the first time it takes account of artists not operating in the great ‘ art capitals ’ …
5 For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done .
6 For the first time it includes children 's wear and one of the best known names in British fashion — Hardy Amies , now living in the Cotswolds and still designer to the Queen .
7 Last May it directed member states to do away with licensing rules like Britain 's , which create import monopolies .
8 From Avon and the South West Rosemary Gould sends news of a successful rally in Saltford Hall on 5 April , with classes by Doreen Prescott and an appearance by the ‘ bunny girls ’ ( proceeds to South-West training days ) , a fund-raising gourmet lunch ( proceeds to the Society ) , and the problem of hall-lessness in the area — last February it hit members of a regular Thursday class particularly hard :
9 Last October it persuaded Moody 's to maintain the credit rating on its long-term debt .
10 Next day it became bus service 12 , now shared with the blue buses of Fylde Borough .
11 Last week it launched version 4 of the XPG portability guide and laid out some of its plans for the future .
12 Last week it despatched entry forms for the Scottish Marketing Awards to its members , encouraging them to show how they had got to the top of the class .
13 Last year it advanced £5 million a day to customers .
14 In July last year it purchased Trico Submersible systems , whose manufacturing facility in Oklahoma has been renamed ESP Products .
15 Late last year it released version 3 of WinFax Pro , which improved on an already good package .
16 A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) .
17 Last year it gave £64,800 , one-third of the group 's local authority aid .
18 In America the company owns the Sterling chain and in October last year it bought Kay Jewellers for $425m .
19 Safeway was the first big store to sell organically farmed meat , and in June last year it introduced lamb to the range .
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