Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 2 | So I mean I think it 'd great Guide Friday you run around little flag in the air , I 've seen them in London and you can do that and and and people get so fit . |
| 3 | Nevertheless she was her usual polite society self with Mr Sands — she had learned in her papa 's home and at the embassy how to put people at their ease — and all in all the sight of his skivvy doing the gracious afforded Dr Neil another bout of inward sardonic mirth , however it delighted young Mr Sands , who thought what a splendid creature she was , and a great pity she was only a servant — she had so much presence . |
| 4 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 5 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 6 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 7 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 8 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 9 | As revealed exclusively in TODAY , yesterday , the £100 million contract was awarded to multinational Alcatel after it undercut British firm Westinghouse . |
| 10 | His goal was a gem for the Seagulls — but it left United manager Alex Ferguson fuming : ‘ There was a slackness right through our side — only Danny Wallace played as though he meant it . ’ |
| 11 | It quoted chief executive John Holloran as saying that the process of seeking a listing had begun . |