Example sentences of "it [vb past] [pos pn] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel .
2 It made my one minute I thought help !
3 The Pru 's ‘ transparent ’ financial reporting has been dominating the headlines recently since it restated its 1991 life and pensions accounts under the accruals basis .
4 We used to count as it played its seven colours
5 The new body has made it clear that , as far as possible , it intends to make public the reasoning behind all its major decisions , a decision influenced perhaps by the criticisms heaped upon the UGC for its unwillingness to make generally known the criteria upon which it based its 1981 decisions concerning cuts in university finances and student numbers .
6 Integrating Evode 's chemicals and plastics businesses with its own activities without dilution was on schedule , Laporte said yesterday as it unveiled its 1992 results .
7 At the same time as the Commission put out its 1986 study of conifers , it released its 1985 survey of beech trees .
8 It brought her four children who opened up the world for her and unlocked her own narrow viewpoint — though not enough , as events were to show .
9 This articulated railcar was scrapped in 1959 but the passenger trailer was towed , on road wheels fitted in place of the bogie to Dunfanaghy where it commenced its 30 year career as a holiday home .
10 Her mind was still seething when she reached Maggie 's ; it took her two attempts to key the code into the computer-lock right-handed .
11 It took her two hours to come up with that . ’
12 It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days .
13 It took her two weeks after the abortive occupation to stick them together again .
14 Bubbles is actually very clever ; it took her five minutes to learn how to leg yield .
15 It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’
16 But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it .
17 It took her three months to gain the confidence to walk through a door , even if the other two dogs walked out first .
18 It had its sixty-four pages , some in smudgy Today -style colour , some in glossy heat-set colour , and most in good old black and white .
19 It left her six shots off an early lead held by Colleen Walker .
20 The paper which , unlike Haycocks I and II , was not considered by the main ACSTT Committee because it arrived too late before it concluded its five year term , was circulated by the DES to interested organizations for discussion and comment and a large number of responses was received .
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