Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But now it seemed this Adam Burns was determined to dredge up her other life all over again . |
| 3 | Before it adjourned , it heard former Pan Am employees accuse the airline of refusing to pay for adequate security measures . |
| 4 | Sandvik broke new woodworking ground when it introduced that Sandvik XT range of saws last year . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |