Example sentences of "and it [vb past] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not quite what she envisaged for herself but it had the advantage of being cheap and it went some way towards satisfying Grace , who was convinced that London was a den of iniquity waiting to swallow up her unsuspecting daughter . |
| 2 | In this early period American railway capital and building energies went mainly into track and engineering , and it took some time for the station to catch up with the grandiose schemes of the companies . |
| 3 | Kim Il Sung headed the NKIPC ; the membership was disparate and it took some time for Kim to establish his control . |
| 4 | Central Office had great difficulty finding seats for the candidates of the National Democratic Party ( NDP ) , as the BWL had become by 1918 , and it took some time even to find a place for Victor Fisher himself before he was finally installed for Stourbridge . |
| 5 | She flinched at the outraged disbelief in Barney 's expression and it took some courage to say what she had to say . |
| 6 | Both small-town stations and large city stations proved amenable to this treatment , and it had some influence in Canada , but still the picturesque could not be stopped in its tracks . |
| 7 | I still think his essay , far from being ‘ a rather feeble piece of writing ’ , to be a powerful piece of advocacy ; and it contained some remarks about culture and religious observance for which in penetration and acuteness I can recall no exact parallel . |
| 8 | This appointment was apparently predetermined , and it caused some offence in the profession . |
| 9 | Ramsay made a swift decision — and it demanded some resolution , since it would entail cost . |
| 10 | And it gained some notoriety for obduracy on female sufferance while the rest of the developed world was gradually seeing sense . |