Example sentences of "and [vb past] it [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They later formed Theme Holdings with Peter Langan , opened three restaurants , floated the company on the stock market in 1987 ( value £6m ) and sold it two years later for £18m . |
| 2 | ‘ But they bought it for £46 million and sold it six months later for £92 million , and there was nothing we could do about it . ’ |
| 3 | Eranio 's superbly struck 31st-minute goal gave them victory over Portuguese champions Porto and made it four triumphs out of four in semi-final group B. |
| 4 | He reached Haslemere in early afternoon , hired a taxi and discharged it fifteen minutes later on the other side of the road from the Skein of Geese Hotel and Restaurant a few miles south-east of the town . |
| 5 | Mrs Wormwood was hooked on bingo and played it five afternoons a week . |
| 6 | She lifted her head and banged it several times on the floor . |
| 7 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |
| 8 | You sorted it out and settled it ten years ago , but now you are facing it as a new problem at your present age . |
| 9 | I picked up the chant and repeated it many times . |
| 10 | After a few minutes of this silent contemplation the rider raised a curved horn to his lips and blew it three times . |
| 11 | The fully-laden truck careered through traffic lights at a crossroads in St Austell , Cornwall , crushed her Vauxhall car and pushed it 100 feet , before virtually demolishing a butchery and crashing into a florist 's shop . |