Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One rather exciting will home made will I hasten to add I dealt with last year , the lady of some who was not getting on with her husband and I think although I 'm not absolutely sure that the handwriting is that of her sister and we have this form filled in and it mentioned the bank or special savings account and it mentioned the premium bonds and it mentioned everything in the back bedroom and the linen in the linen and the linen cupboard because she 'd brought all this lot and it failed to appoint an executor and it failed to deal with the residuary estate it meant that technically there was a partial intestacy , as there was a partial intestacy the rules applied to that , first person to inherit ? |
| 2 | When the agreement in the present case was made , it failed to grant an estate in the land . |
| 3 | The EC stated in the final declaration that it expected to implement an offer to remove or reduce duties on tropical products " once a satisfactory balanced conclusion has been reached in the Uruguay Round " . |
| 4 | Positioned well away from the planned recreational activities , it promised to attract an abundance of wildlife — and so it has turned out . |
| 5 | It happened when a Chipmunk light aircraft from RAF Benson in Oxfordshire hit the ground as it tried to make an emergency landing in Wales . |
| 6 | A robotic dispenser arm was whirring nervously and jabbing into Bernice 's neck as it tried to locate an item that was n't there from a shelf that had been removed . |
| 7 | One last rocky outcrop of headland ; it seemed to take an age to round . |
| 8 | When the Department of Industry announced its " Microcomputers in schools " , scheme in 1980 , it seemed to Provide an opportunity for Promoting the use of the microcomputer in school libraries and through that further to promote the school library . |
| 9 | It seemed to provide an envoi to the policies and economics of consensus , which had coincided with decades of calamitous financial and international decline . |
| 10 | It was an attempt at prohibition that was never wholly successful but it did set an example . |
| 11 | Good Lord ! it did make an impression on me , reading the letters of those men . |
| 12 | Yes , it did reveal an interest in her , but was she right in thinking it was a sexual one ? |
| 13 | ‘ But it shows she was trying everything and it did put an end to the sightings at that time . ’ |
| 14 | While this pattern was reproduced only imperfectly in the ECSC and while a timetable of functional spillover might have taken an unconscionable time to achieve , what in the end counted for the ECSC was that it did provide an atmosphere of mutual confidence among the leaders of the member states — despite the disputes , none contemplated leaving the Community — and that this helped to pave the way for the creating of the European Economic Community in 1957 . |
| 15 | Drink never loosened his tongue , though it did have an effect on his sizable nose which , like Bardolph 's , was a beacon in the dark . |
| 16 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 17 | It had made an investment and wanted a quick return , and more . |
| 18 | National Clamps said it had sacked an operator over the incident . |
| 19 | In December , the World Food Programme announced that it had reached an agreement with the government and the EPLF to reopen the port [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 20 | Taiwan announced on Sept. 8 that it had reached an accord with Russia to exchange unofficial representative offices , on the lines of the model used by Japan and the USA for unofficial representation in Taiwan . |
| 21 | It is hardly likely that a local authority would grant permission for a development against which it had served an enforcement notice , but it could , of course , attach conditions ; and for the owner there is the usual right of appeal . |
| 22 | Monotype said yesterday it had received an approach ‘ which may or may not lead to an offer ’ from Mirror Group Newspapers . |
| 23 | It had received an influx of lawyers from Rome when the Normans had taken the city in 1084 . |
| 24 | BOGOTA ( Reuter ) — The Colombian government said it had rejected an offer last year from drug traffickers to give up the drug trade in exchange for not being extradited to the US , and firmly ruled out any dialogue with the traffickers . |
| 25 | The Railway Gazette reported that it had become an attraction to sightseers , rather like the early days at the first Euston and at the inauguration of the great European and American stations . |
| 26 | It had become an obsession ; he was terrified he might die before he could complete it . |
| 27 | It had become an endurance test . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , it had put an end to the unlawfulness of combinations . |
| 29 | On 4 April 1991 , the very day the children were finally flown home to Orkney , the government announced it had commissioned an Inquiry to establish the extent — if any — of ritual sexual abuse of children . |
| 30 | On Dec. 13 a German company , Leybold , confirmed that it had exported an electron beam welding machine ( used in the assembly of centrifuge machines ) to Iraq but denied knowledge of Iraq 's nuclear programme . |