Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sought to achieve some form of policy coordination in other , more economic sectors : transport in 1953 , civil aviation in 1954 , and agriculture in 1955 ( though the latter was essentially organised within the context of OEEC since Switzerland and Portugal , not then Council members , were also participants ) . |
| 2 | She wanted to do things for him — it seemed to give some purpose to her life to have somebody depending even a little on her . |
| 3 | The European Commission has decided that the state aid offered to Digital Equipment Corp at its Scottish plant in Ayr conforms with Community rules , the Irish Department of Enterprise & Employment has had to admit : in a letter to the department , Brussels said ‘ The Commission , with regard to information provided by the UK authorities , considers the regional aid granted to the Ayr plant is in conformity with Community rules and the aid received is within the limits approved by the Commission for this region ’ ; the Irish government had asked for a review of state aid to DEC after it decided to transfer some operations from Galway to Ayr . |
| 4 | Direction , one felt , was needed , and up to a point , with soloists Neil Black and William Bennett , it did make some impact . |
| 5 | A police spokesman said the house , in Old Road , was up for sale and was unoccupied , although it did contain some furniture . |
| 6 | In this it had little success , though it did cause some alarm to the authorities and to shipowners , some of whom recognised that accumulated benefits could be an effective way of retaining membership . |
| 7 | Although it did envisage some mergers with universities , the emphasis throughout was very much on strengthening the public sector of higher education . |
| 8 | However , it did take some time for the mother church to readjust after this second labour and birth . |
| 9 | But it did take some time . |
| 10 | But the east Belfast based group vowed the show would go ahead — even if it did take some time . |
| 11 | That indeed was the case , with the appearance of another loose intergovernmental structure , a Conference of European Ministers of Transport , which could only suggest and advise — though it did have some success in persuading ten states to sign a convention on cooperation and coordination of their rail networks in 1953 . |
| 12 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 13 | The problem in relation to whether the car was new arose because , before the car was delivered to the dealer , it had suffered some damage in a collision in a compound . |
| 14 | It had to happen some time . |
| 15 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 16 | The EMS , founded in 1979 , had not collapsed as had been predicted in many quarters , rather it had achieved some success in stabilising exchange rate fluctuations , and in helping to promote convergence of inflation rates . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , it had to come some time , you know . |
| 18 | It had taken some labour to restore : a gang of builders had spent months ripping down hardboard partitions , taking out gas meters , attempting to rescue old parquet flooring , refitting windows , stripping paint from tiles . |
| 19 | It had taken some time to reach a decision , but eventually they had come across to check their bonds were in place , and then had gone off . |
| 20 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 21 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 22 | Speaking at the end of the two days of talks , Mrs Thatcher said it had helped some countries combat inflation . |
| 23 | Technically , it had finished some months before , but there was a lot to do . |
| 24 | This below-par performance was partly reflected in our share price , which fell sharply in the summer , [ though in line with the market it had recovered some ground by the year-end ] If , by Feb 11 , the price is on the way down , omit words in [ ] |
| 25 | She had the feeling that it wanted to reach some sort of understanding with her , to tell her something in its rough , mute animal way . |