Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though details of Short 's contract are secret , it sold Argentina 60 Blowpipes as well as Tigercat surface-to-air missiles . |
| 2 | By the time Tiphook arrived on the stock market , it already had impressive turnover and profits for a company only seven years off the starting blocks ; the following year it made £2.4 million profit on sales of £25 million . |
| 3 | The group got its first taste of the opposition to the plan when it met Ulster Unionist representatives in Belfast . |
| 4 | On Jan. 17 it met Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before moving on to meet mujaheddin leaders in Peshawar . |
| 5 | Charles I sold the manor to the City of London in 1628 to raise finance , after which it changed hands several times until the Bethell family of Rise held it through most of the 17th and 18th centuries . |
| 6 | By the 18th century the castle was beginning to fall into disrepair , and in the 19th century it changed hands several times . |
| 7 | We dog-legged out to Pigeon Point Fort , which had defended the island rather unsuccessfully in years gone by : it changed hands 20 times , mainly between Britain and France . |
| 8 | It moved premises five times in five decades to keep abreast of space requirements . |
| 9 | Rio Tinto Finance and Exploration , a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc , announced in 1987 it found gold three miles west of Omagh , Co . |
| 10 | Over £pound1,100 had been paid to strikers in Denmark , £pound 1,000 towards a dispute in Australia [ it cost £pound16 14s 6d to remit that amount ! ] and a further £pound1,000 to dock porters , coal trimmers and gas stokers . |
| 11 | Militarisation worked for the Nazis as it had for the Prussians in that it helped control large numbers of people , allowed a cheap and easy growth of populist emotion and nationalist identity and became the mainspring of industry by providing demand . |
| 12 | He showed a particular liking for Richard who took full advantage of the situation , though it caused Edward some uneasiness . |
| 13 | When it downgraded Italy this week , the rating agency said it feared that future governments might fail to pursue the tough policies needed to bring Italian public spending under control . |
| 14 | Played me one day and it played Annabel one day . |
| 15 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 16 | Between 1973 and 1985 it spent £25 million pounds on a process to remove about 95 per cent of the mercury from its runcorn effluents , which has an annual operating cost of £1.5 million . |
| 17 | It needed £400 million investment to replace signalling , track and electricity supplies installed 30 years ago and a similar sum for new trains . |
| 18 | It hit Hawaii fifteen hours later , wrecking boats and beaches , ruining the Waikiki tourist trade ; and twenty-four hours after being triggered in southern Chile , it hit Japan , 10,000 miles north . |
| 19 | Though it also has been scarred by the decline of the region 's economy and property markets — it lost $48.5m last year , mainly because of bad property loans — it has suffered less than Bank of Boston . |
| 20 | Yet it makes the right more united , on paper , than at any time since it lost office three years ago . |
| 21 | News spread like wildfire , but it brought Burke unexpected trouble in that a man called Samuel O'Rourke claimed to be a friend of the dead Byrne and challenged Burke to a fight which Burke did not want . |
| 22 | When Cooper lobbied government to get rid of him it persuaded M.P.s that Cooper just had a bee in bonnet and was not to be taken seriously . |
| 23 | The EEC offered West Germany and its booming economy a huge outlet for its industrial goods , in the same way as it offered France some export benefits for its large agricultural sector . |
| 24 | Of course it went shite next season . |
| 25 | Although a phenomenal critical and box-office success , it took Stone ten years to raise the finance , eventually obtaining it through the British Hemdale company . |
| 26 | It took Daphne several attempts to explain what ‘ riding to hounds ’ actually meant , though she had to admit that even Eliza Doolittle would have been hard pushed to understand fully why they bothered with the exercise in the first place . |
| 27 | It took Quakers 19 minutes to produce any noteworthy effort , a Nick Cusack left-foot shot that slipped just wide of the post , and they almost equalised after 29 minutes when Fashanu flicked Andy Toman 's left wing corner against his own bar but the rebound fell to a Torquay defender . |
| 28 | The portiera was an old deaf lady and it took Sandison five minutes to explain who he was and who he wanted to visit . |
| 29 | It took Corky all day to get this far and then he fainted in front of the C64 ! |
| 30 | It took Wolves 15 seconds to bring a Black Country barrage from the stands with their first , booming aerial ‘ pass ’ for Bull to pursue ; a further 30 seconds for Villa to concede a corner ; and two minutes for Nigel Spink to be forced into a sprawling save by Mark Venus . |