Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 2 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 3 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 4 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 5 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 6 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 7 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 8 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 9 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 10 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 11 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 12 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 13 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 14 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 15 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 16 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 17 | And she came in and she had this , this baby , and it was her thirteenth baby and it weighed fourteen pounds . |
| 18 | He thus technically became an Argentine citizen , and it needed eight years of negotiation between the two countries to relieve him of his obligation to do military service in Argentina . |
| 19 | And it rang three times every night for three weeks … to take their temperature . |
| 20 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |