Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp has had second thoughts about its planned workforce cuts and realises that as it intends to hire 10,000 new graduates over the period to 1997 , it will have to get rid of 43,000 people rather than the 33,000 it announced earlier to meet its target of 200,000 by 1997 . |
| 2 | A couple of days after starting this diet , Jamie 's crying was noticeably less and it became easier to get him to sleep each evening . |
| 3 | As the pace of his life increased , this wildness became ingrained and its Purpose more obscure ; it became harder to understand what he was pursuing or being pursued by . |
| 4 | Although it made little progress its symbolic importance ( the first such meeting to be held ) was considerable . |
| 5 | It signed a standstill agreement under which it promised not to increase its holding for three years . |
| 6 | In return , it promised not to play its one trump card — water . |
| 7 | Heathrow was very busy as usual but it helped not having our luggage to carry as it was booked right through to our final destination . |
| 8 | Music giant Thorn EMI continued to revel in the support it received yesterday following its stunning profits rise . |
| 9 | It dropped once d' ya know that ? |
| 10 | As they climbed so the flak followed them ; as they dived so it came down to harry them . |
| 11 | His mind fought off the idea furiously , and yet it came back to fret his certainty again . |
| 12 | Oh it came yesterday did it ? |
| 13 | And the plume of vapour was blue , but the blueness all around it bellied inwards to encyst it in peacock and midnight , and while it was busy she slashed at the palest of the azure walls with the tongue of her belt-buckle . |
| 14 | I 've always been a huge fan of the whole Memphis sound — as I guess everybody has figured by now ! — but the thing about the Stax band was that everything they did was totally minimal , but it slotted together to make something really strong . |
| 15 | Her hand drifted to the back of his head and without any conscious decision of her own it pressed lightly to bring his mouth to her aching , demanding breast . |
| 16 | After he 'd unfastened the message capsule from its leg it flew up to join its fellows lurking among the rafters . |
| 17 | It pulled out to meet him , and he climbed in . |
| 18 | So as yesterday 's half-year figures could be the last Tootal releases as an independent company , it is no surprise it worked hard to make them look good . |
| 19 | New Zealand supported the convention until Febuary when it decided not to ratify it . |
| 20 | Even when , as we show later , Brazil had an opportunity to do so when it invited the multinationals to establish its automobile industry , it chose not to exercise its power for fear of discouraging potential entrants . |
| 21 | The lift went down and it kept on doing it . |
| 22 | It hurt enough to frighten her and she was not a woman easily frightened . |
| 23 | She mopped the liquid up from the floor with a clean towel , though she knew it meant presently lugging it all the way down to the launderette . |
| 24 | It went on to say it 's a sad reflection on the Criminal Justice system and on society today that this should have happened . |
| 25 | It went on to declare its opposition to a strict line on suspension of those countries in default in meeting IMF repayment obligations , which , it said , " will not serve a useful purpose and is not acceptable " . |
| 26 | It went on to discuss what form the opinion should take , including where a reservation of opinion would be required . |
| 27 | It went on doing it |
| 28 | Then the dim increasingly blotted memories of different doors , different faces peering , being naked , shaved , enemaed , injected , while it went on hurting her repeatedly , relentlessly . |
| 29 | We had the grill on and it was still on and it went off turned it off turned back on again did n't go on . |
| 30 | As fast as it came in , it went out to clear his debt . |