Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1980s corporate America did pay out a large share of net profits in dividends , and it did spend billions on share repurchases . |
| 2 | The prosecution alleges that , to justify the shooting , the soldiers said they opened fire on a stolen car after it had struck one of their patrol . |
| 3 | The IS said it had received hundred of letters campaigning for Williams ' release from all over the world . |
| 4 | I bit the shell of one and gave the kernel to her , and then bit another and pretended it had broken one of my teeth and I was in too much pain . ’ |
| 5 | The Collector sat on an oak throne which had been chipped out of the mud rampart for fuel , but had not yet been used , though it had lost one of its front legs . |
| 6 | Soon it had become one of the main topics of conversation . |
| 7 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 8 | He 'd once walked out , in a sixteen-year-old child 's sulk , on a family dinner-party , and his father had always chided him about it — it had become one of those family memories that everyone always laughs at , always shares . |
| 9 | By this time it had become one of the principal Manchester manufacturers of engines and boilers , with a considerable export trade to Russia and India ; up to 1866 it had built over 1,800 boilers and about 200 engines since starting in business in 1835 . |
| 10 | It had compressed two-thirds of the marrow and trapped the nerves . |
| 11 | Kleinwort Benson , which disclosed it had purchased 200,000 of its own shares at 353p each , rose 11p to 366p and Hambros edged ahead 3p to 232p . |
| 12 | Since then , demand for board level products has increased , but the Sparcbook has taken off more slowly than Tadpole hoped , so that by September 30 it had sold 647 of the things , bringing in £3.5m . |
| 13 | It had entered one of the tents , but a moment later emerged and raced at Tallis , light reflecting in dull eyes . |
| 14 | It had spent thousands of years being handed down from nome to nome without ever saying a word or lighting a light . |
| 15 | It had taken three-quarters of an hour to sort out the situation at the crossroads in Ramsgate , make statements to the police , get the names of witnesses , watch the crippled Jaguar being winched on to the back of the Relay tender . |
| 16 | It had taken two of them to free me from the current and I was so relieved . |
| 17 | Judge Keith Matthewman said it was a well-planned scheme and if it had worked thousands of people would have lost money . |
| 18 | It had ordered 54 of them — but second thoughts on the sourcing postponed their arrival by five years , so only 12 are ready for use in the Gulf . |
| 19 | It had rejoiced , as alien coteries naturally do , in its own intellectual isolation ; and in disdaining narrative , or at least fast-paced narrative , it had disavowed one of the native strengths of the tradition . |
| 20 | The firm announced that it had suspended two of the managing directors responsible for the violations . |