Example sentences of "it [vb past] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once she had turned the corner and the house was hidden from view , she jumped off her bike and pushed it through the maze of potholes that pitted the drive as it meandered the half mile to the main gates . |
| 2 | I did try on a couple of occasions to wind the engine up past the 5000rpm mark , where the torque curve begins to fall away rapidly , but it produced no more performance than was available by driving the car sensibly for economy . |
| 3 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 4 | It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video . |
| 5 | Here it played the same role . |
| 6 | When the constable called , he left his bicycle leaning against the signalbox wall and it screeched a little way along the wall before coming to a rest ; the sound was to remain in Mr Daubney 's memory for reasons that will be revealed . |
| 7 | Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 . |
| 8 | Already he had spent an hour wandering around the town — it needed no more time than that — trying to get the feel of the place . |
| 9 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 10 | The directors have chosen ABC first before several other companies not because it offered the most money , but because it is the organisation most in tune with Name 's philosophy , shares its commitment to growing the business and is most able to deliver ; |
| 11 | It took a little time for him to realise that ‘ Bovril ’ was not a local retailer . |
| 12 | In the provinces it took a little time before London fashions were adopted . |
| 13 | It took a little time to find the girl who had been moved and was not in the room that the Sub-lieutenant had told him how to find . |
| 14 | It took a little time , but he drank the lot and went back to sleep . |
| 15 | It took a little time for employers to depersonalize personal computers . |
| 16 | Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume . |
| 17 | It took a little time , and without the guidance she would never have found it in a million years . |
| 18 | After leaving the Navy , it took a little time to become used to a normal bed again , as the hammock had proved to be such an ideal sleeping arrangement . |
| 19 | It took a little time , but er , eventually he got it , and now I 'm delighted to say he 's one of the most organised managers on earth . |
| 20 | It took no more time to produce the gas by the new method than it did using metals and acids . |
| 21 | It reached an all time high of twenty five percent in about nineteen seventy five and it 's gone down since . |
| 22 | In fact , however , it did no such thing . |
| 23 | taking it cos it did the same thing . |
| 24 | Originally it gave the same reading as the theatre score ; Purcell made the alteration in order to bring it into line with the printed version . |
| 25 | While agreeing with this description of Hoccleve 's illness as of psychotic severity , our own evaluation is that it had a more depressive quality , many of the symptoms described by Hoccleve meeting the modern criteria for serious depression . |
| 26 | When the Data Protection Committee was set up in 1976 , to redeem a pledge made by the Home Secretary when Younger reported , It had no such limitation put upon it — it was in fact the first body empowered to investigate information systems in the public sector , and the Committee came to see this as a major aspect of its work . |
| 27 | And it had the most money of its own to spend on the election campaign , though unlike many of the other parties it got no western aid . |
| 28 | It had the same air of dereliction and sadness , but something else too . |
| 29 | It had the same look of sunny cheerfulness as the rest of the house . |
| 30 | I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday . |