Example sentences of "it [vb past] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 2 | In recent weeks it sold one Ford franchise for £8m and bought another for £6m . |
| 3 | It made one manufacturing company re-order its priorities substantially . |
| 4 | As before , it is the Standard that we turn to and , as a measure of its interest , it devoted 10 column inches to the event in the issue before the opening , and a further 24 inches in the week afterwards ! |
| 5 | Boatswain ’ , no doubt knew how to entertain an audience , just as the Shatford Players had done : ‘ … after it was entangled in the net , it received seventeen musket balls from the Greyhound Cutter ’ ( Gosh ! ) ; ‘ … it was dragged to the shore by seven horses … ’ |
| 6 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 7 | The company said it shipped 50,000 revenue systems , a first-quarter record up 16% , including 13,000 Sparcstation 2s , 15,000 IPXs and 12,000 assorted . |
| 8 | It covered ten rape cases in 1971 , but reported only three cases not covered in the other five newspapers . |
| 9 | It included three paedophile books called Ben and a magazine named The Stud Boys . |
| 10 | It contained eighty-seven woodcut illustrations after Edward Burr e-Jones and woodcut borders and initials by Morris himself . |
| 11 | Provisions in the General Revenue Act of 1992 to make deductible against tax the current value of both tangible and intangible property donated to a non-profit organisation ( for example , a painting to a museum or shares to a hospital ) rather than their value at acquisition failed along with the whole bill when it was vetoed by President Bush last month because it contained forty tax increases . |
| 12 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 13 | Many of the items are thought to have been stolen in burglaries over the past two years in the Cotswolds , Herefordshire , Worcestershire and Warwickshire.So many antiques were recovered , it took eight furniture lorries to bring them back to Cirencester . |
| 14 | Acorn Computer Ltd chose the Cebit Hannover Fair to launch a German version of its RISC OS 3 operating system : not much to it you may think — just translate the error messages — unfortunately the company had reckoned without the sheer verbosity of the German language — it took five beta versions before all the Achtung ! messages were successfully squeezed into the ROM . |
| 15 | It took ten security men to calm the crowd down . ’ |
| 16 | It took three phone calls to track down Foley , who was still at the Tower . |
| 17 | The farm reckons it took twenty man hours to clean up the strawberry patch . |
| 18 | It had seventeen degree courses in operation , and was setting itself a target of 6–8000 full-time student equivalents by the early 1980s . |
| 19 | When I joined the company it had fifty-eight blast furnaces , the largest of which produced 2,750 tons a day . |
| 20 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 21 | It had three education sub committees , a major education committee , numerous sub committees , working parties and all sorts . |
| 22 | It had seven base stones and four capstones ; she knew it well ; she had been present when it had been discoverd and excavated . |
| 23 | It launched two computer programmes aimed at giving people on-the-spot help through the maze of social security benefits and advice on managing debts . |