Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 2 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 3 | ICI , which developed the R12 replacement , has cut its production of CFCs to roughly half the amount it manufactured three years ago . |
| 4 | When the pound slipped through the fingers of the ERM last September and plunged in value against important trading currencies , it became Golden Wednesday instead . |
| 5 | It became 50 times more sensitive . |
| 6 | It reopened several days later , however , and no further desalination plants came under direct threat during February . |
| 7 | The invention of printing , a key technical stage in the technology of distribution , had remarkable early effects in that it made technical distribution much easier but in conditions of relatively unaltered social distribution . |
| 8 | By voting with the Government , it let Labour walk away . |
| 9 | I 've never heard it described that way before but there you go er |
| 10 | And Tony from Telford says , I spent years combing my hair over my bald patch , it stopped four months ago and I 'm much much happier . |
| 11 | In May , 1977 , it moved another step higher . |
| 12 | Mrs Merlin and her husband Christopher say radioactive contamination was behind their decision to sell the house , Mountain Ash , Ravenglass , six miles from Sellafield , which fetched only £35,000 — little more than it cost 11 years earlier . |
| 13 | As well as being practical , the end result will look as if it cost many times as much . |
| 14 | Laing admits that the Spanish company was bought out of desperation and it cost United Biscuits dearly . |
| 15 | Well they did n't know and they to it were towing Julie 's car and the tow belt snapped , and of course when it jerked this car forward it cut the petrol off . |
| 16 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 17 | In cash terms that is exactly the same as the amount it received seven years ago . |
| 18 | The national gallery gets £2.75 million , the same as it received seven years ago and rather less than it received 10 years ago . |
| 19 | Fashion retailer Next was on everybody 's buy list as it boosted taxable profits threefold . |
| 20 | That Act One marriage scene — I do n't think I 've ever seen it played that way before , as a comedy number . ’ |
| 21 | When the place was up and running , with guests in all the woodland chalets and the cafeteria open until late , it would feel safe at any hour ; and now that he was no longer alone here , it seemed that way now . |
| 22 | It was actually something of a momentous decision — and one which it seemed thirty years later was never to be repeated . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's been in a coma since it happened six weeks ago . ’ |
| 24 | The equivalent of selling snow to eskimos must be the British selling ski slopes to the Swedish , but it happened two months ago at Ullna outside Stockholm . |
| 25 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 26 | It happened twenty years ago , when you were still in short trousers . |
| 27 | It faced certain doom either at the polls or at the hands of the National Union of Mineworkers . |
| 28 | It was a gloomy room , with one small window that let in hardly any light , as it faced another building only a few feet away . |
| 29 | He dispatched a police patrol car , but when it arrived 16 minutes later the telephone was swinging on the end of its cord . |
| 30 | It arrived five minutes later when Glenn Hunter superbly headed in a Burrows ' corner . |