Example sentences of "it [adj] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It all began forty-four years ago .
2 It all began 40 years ago when David was 18 and his father started him off farming at Mowbray House .
3 It all began last November when wrote off for an application form and shortly afterwards they were invited , along with 8,000 other families , to go to Birmingham for an audition .
4 It all made good sense at the time , but it has turned the middle-classes into sitting ducks , waiting to be plucked by Mr Smith .
5 It all made depressing reading .
6 And I copied it over It all compiled first time .
7 It all started one cold , dark evening in January .
8 It all started sixteen years ago when our children went to school for the first time and we found we had a gap in our lives to fill .
9 The company is called Cromemco , after the dormitory , Crothers Memorial , where it all started six years ago .
10 He said : ‘ The trouble is that when it all started 100 years ago no-one envisaged just how popular rock climbing would become .
11 It all started several years ago when Matthew was commissioned to produce a graphics pattern for the film processing industry .
12 It all started 2 years ago last October .
13 But with Son being here , talking about it once in a while when she gets a bit down , and do n't we all — well , I feel like it all happened last week , and what 's more as if I was in the middle of it .
14 His family background , his education , his experience ; it all pointed that way .
15 Since it first met 15 months ago , the council has spent £732 000 setting itself up but seems no nearer completing its task of replacing the ineffectual Council of Engineering Institutions in such areas as improving engineering education , taking over registration of engineers and improving the status of the profession .
16 It first attained some prominence during the Han dynasty when contacts with the west were intensified .
17 Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive schoolwhich now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schools will finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago .
18 Head teacher Marcus Thacker said he hoped the Roughwood Drive school which now tops the Knowsley table of arson-hit schoolswill finally get the £70,000 security fence it first requested four years ago .
19 Since it first started 51 years ago , opencast mining , too , has seen remarkable changes .
20 It first appeared three lines ago where it referred to the suns ability to give life to the earth of a cold star .
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