Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 2 | Additionally , it read all cable traffic entering and leaving Britain . |
| 3 | It sought formal Solidarity support for the government through a permanent representation committee . |
| 4 | Upon closure of the branch line in 1957 , the B.E.M.U. went home to Derby where it became departmental test unit ‘ Gemini ’ , before eventually being acquired by the West Yorkshire Transport Museum . |
| 5 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 6 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 7 | She looked good , she was quite good fun to be with , it made good business sense … |
| 8 | It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at . |
| 9 | Even the Irish edition of the Daily Star said something positive about Sellafield recently when it reported that radon gas was to blame for 500 deaths every year . |
| 10 | ‘ Briefly , it described systematic state child abuse , ’ said Mr Fenton . |
| 11 | It described extravagant Easter egg packaging as ‘ a gimmick which has nothing to do with protecting the contents , let alone Easter ’ . |
| 12 | Once it entered low mountain cloud , production of acids increased 14-fold and fallout increased over 200 per cent . |
| 13 | It caused slight fire damage to skirting board and smoke damage to 30 metres of corridor . |
| 14 | It received several daytime radio plays and the chorus , containing the grunt ‘ Lost your love of life ? |
| 15 | But it suffered severe smoke damage last night after its frying range caught light . |
| 16 | A year later further serious violence occurred during the weekend of 10–12 April 1981 in the Brixton area of south London ; this resulted in many injuries and widespread damage , and it attracted enormous media attention . |
| 17 | Certainly it provoked wide media interest which continues today , and it remains a highly emotive issue . |
| 18 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 19 | That means that means that it prevented high blood pressure as well though . |
| 20 | It happened last Thursday evening when Elizabeth and I and your two brothers , Ernest and William , went for a walk outside the city . |
| 21 | To tackle the current economic crisis , it envisaged freezing government expenditure and reducing the costs of social security and unemployment benefit . |
| 22 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 23 | It is also , more generally , the essence of what the Barclay Report ( 1982 ) was seeking when it characterized social care planning as one of the core roles in which community social workers should be engaged . |
| 24 | It obstructed coherent cabinet consideration of the issues , and full consultation between civilian and military leaders . |
| 25 | It indicated that community education for peace and reconstruction offered a possible alternative to violence and conflict by building a united working-class movement based on local community action . |
| 26 | It needed careful trowel work , and the structural sequence became increasingly complicated and difficult to understand . |
| 27 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 28 | It included large waggon door openings in the middle of each side elevation , with storage bays to either side of the central threshing floor to which these doors gave access . |
| 29 | It urged Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi to accept Beye 's invitation to a meeting in Libreville , Gabon , with African heads of state . |
| 30 | It urged Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi to accept Beye 's invitation to a meeting in Libreville , Gabon , with African heads of state . |