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

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1 The problem is that while some commercial interests made a healthy profit from the '91 World Cup it failed to produce enough RWC cash to underwrite the Catania tournament , let alone the qualifying tournaments for the 1995 World Cup in South Africa .
2 It seemed to blend best Newman 's two dictates for the show .
3 Levi 's statement to Philip Roth about If not now , when ? did not mention Babel , but it did mention another Isaac — the Yiddish writer , Bashevis Singer .
4 Those who have a cold or flu are doubting whether they have had enough time to get over the illness , even if it did strike last November .
5 Kent brewer Shepherd Neame said it had leased 60 Whitbread pubs in the south-east of England .
6 The Israeli delegation rejoined the talks on Nov. 12 after it had received written US assurances that Hallaj 's membership of the PNC had lapsed in 1991 .
7 The Vietnamese government had always maintained that it had returned all US POWs to the US government shortly after the signing of the Paris peace agreements in 1973 .
8 The non-communist Khmer People 's National Liberation Front ( KPNLF ) said earlier this week it had captured 24 Phnom Penh government positions on Route 69 in the north-west of the country .
9 It said it had sold 38,000 NT developers ' kits to date .
10 Malaria was rife and by the following July it had claimed twenty-one Nez Perce lives .
11 Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship .
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