Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sold 850 units in its first year . |
| 2 | Zenith also said it sold 500,000 shares of newly issued common to institutional investors for whom Crabbe Huson Co of Portland , Oregon serves as investment advisor . |
| 3 | It sold 2000 copies in 10 days and became fourth in the list of Victorian best-sellers , beaten only by The Bible , Robinson Crusoe and The Pilgrim 's Progress . |
| 4 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 5 | Furthermore , it gave valuable information about the Permian sequence ; in particular it penetrated 370 ft of Upper Permian salt , and the 1800 ft of lavas and tuffs believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 6 | It made five goals in nine League games for the 29-year-old Scot and earned high praise from Lawrence . |
| 7 | Six months later in the municipal elections it fought eight seats in five London boroughs . |
| 8 | It involved 14 groups of facial muscles and it releases chemicals to the brain that help combat depression . |
| 9 | Both state that it involved 300 denarii of spikenard — the equivalent of perhaps £5,000 today . |
| 10 | It reported 1992 revenues of $29m . |
| 11 | It moved three quarters of a mile downwind where it managed to hold station under its own power . |
| 12 | A precise chronology is impossible , but Bede says it was in 653 — by which 654 may need to be understood , for Bede also says it occurred two years before the death of Penda ( in 655 or 656 ) — that Peada was converted ( HE V , 24 ) . |
| 13 | It cost 109,600 lives on the Allied side and 29,000 German submariners . |
| 14 | And it cost sixty pence in this country to buy , buy a small bar of chocolate . |
| 15 | erm , but it cost seven pounds for me and mum |
| 16 | Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it . |
| 17 | It scrawled four shapes in the dust . |
| 18 | Prior to its third seminar , in 1980 , it invited five experts from developing countries to study and evaluate a number of development programmes in the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | The Commission imposed a four-year supervision order in August 1990 against the West German company Advanced Nuclear Fuels GmbH for serious violations of safety regulations when it transported 130 kg of enriched uranium through Luxembourg in what purported to be empty containers . |
| 20 | It consumed 25 mpg around town , 46 mpg at 56 mph and 32 mpg at 75 mph . |
| 21 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 22 | It identified 500,000 hectares of costal habitat which it said were in need of active conservation measures . |
| 23 | Newark Castle was of strategic importance during the Civil War when it withheld three sieges by Parliamentarians . |
| 24 | In particular it distinguished two forms of such training and education : We stress the range of educational provision that is relevant to vocational training in the broadest sense and to the developing needs of young people . |
| 25 | It distinguished five categories of creation story ( taken from Philip Freund 's useful book Myths of creation ) , and picked out eight characteristics or linked elements that were worth pursuing . |
| 26 | It noted 57 scenes of sexual activity and 65 of nudity . |
| 27 | It comprised three representatives of the NPFL ( including the commission chair , Yonduach Monokomana ) and two from Sawyer 's Interim Government of National Unity ( IGNU ) . |
| 28 | It comprised 20 professionals from SSDs , voluntary organisations , private sector , health sector and after much campaigning , a couple of users . |
| 29 | It added 125,000 subscribers in the current year to March 31 following the introduction of its Low Call service , aimed at domestic customers , which helped boost pre-tax profits to £322.5m from £271.76m . |
| 30 | It added 125,000 subscribers in the current year to March 31 following the introduction of its Low Call service , aimed at domestic customers . |