Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " 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 | Staff at Middlesbrough General Hospital at first tried to induce labour on January 31 but when it became clear Mrs Busuttil , now of West Drayton , London , was not in labour they discontinued their efforts . |
| 3 | Philips Electronics NV says it sold 100,000 CD-I players in 1992 , but expects the market to mushroom in the next two years , with a doubling this year , and a trebling of that in 1994 — 600,000 in other words . |
| 4 | Nevertheless she was her usual polite society self with Mr Sands — she had learned in her papa 's home and at the embassy how to put people at their ease — and all in all the sight of his skivvy doing the gracious afforded Dr Neil another bout of inward sardonic mirth , however it delighted young Mr Sands , who thought what a splendid creature she was , and a great pity she was only a servant — she had so much presence . |
| 5 | She said the Edinburgh summit had been a tense time for the family when it seemed all Mr Garel-Jones ' work on Maastricht could have come to nothing . |
| 6 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 7 | It happened last Thursday evening when Elizabeth and I and your two brothers , Ernest and William , went for a walk outside the city . |
| 8 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 9 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 10 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 11 | That the new system generated little moral authority was less important than the fact that it gave many Sri Lankans access to the power of the state . |
| 12 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |