Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research group Incomes Data Services said that 10pc of the 100 deals it monitored involved a pay freeze . |
| 2 | I mean you know what happened when , wh when th General Strike was on , there was er nothing entered unless it 'd got a permit from a Trades Council , and you know that do n't you ? |
| 3 | That 's a bit like that thingy but it was bald and it 'd got a bad , ever such a bad |
| 4 | So a local authority might then find itself in a situation that it 'd got a two tier site . |
| 5 | if it 'd happened a couple of weeks ago when she was about I would of kept going over like she said I could do |
| 6 | Our efforts to provide Cuba with the petroleum products it needed put a heavy burden on our own shipping system and forced us to order extra tankers from Italy . |
| 7 | It gave United a point and stopped the slide . |
| 8 | The population of England and Wales had grown steadily in the centuries up to about 1300 , by which time it had exceeded a level which could easily be sustained by contemporary food production . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the justice ministry said yesterday that it had barred a judge from investigating how the prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy , came to receive an interest-free loan in 1986 from a financier later charged with insider trading . |
| 10 | However , when I stripped the pump off the block , cleaned it and left it on the workbench , I noticed it had leaked a small amount of oil from a 1.5mm hole located near the back underside of the pump . |
| 11 | By 1920 , it had secured a comfortable majority on the council and had two of Greater London 's four Labour MPS . |
| 12 | But the STUC also voiced disquiet about the way last Monday 's picketing was handled by police , and said it had secured a pledge that policing would now be ‘ even-handed ’ . |
| 13 | The threat co-incided with an announcement by British Gas that it had secured an exclusive deal with Bahrain , one of the GCC members , to develop plans for a large power station there . |
| 14 | He pointed out that when the council was barred from making further payments on the transactions , it had made a profit . |
| 15 | Clifford Howard commented on how Hollywood could ignore all criticisms as ‘ mere wind ’ and ‘ envy ’ for it had made a success of its own business and it had displayed ‘ a Yankee genius for sensing the taste of the public and giving the world what it wants ’ . |
| 16 | In the second half of last year , it had made a loss of £1m , and broke even in the first half of 1992 . |
| 17 | This view had clear implications for the state as actor , but the events of the 1960s showed that it had made a false assumption . |
| 18 | His unconventionality , his unorthodoxy and his accent all helped the party to feel that it had made a step forward : " the dawn of the new regime " . |
| 19 | The African colony to which he returned was regarded by the British government as ‘ advanced ’ — in African terms — which meant that it had made a start on the road to self-government ; however , the Colonial Office reckoned that the goal was still distant . |
| 20 | Of course , it had made a bloody marvellous spectacle — not to mention £125,000 for doing absolutely nothing — but ‘ the boys ’ were growing increasingly restive at having their records , and themselves , banned . |
| 21 | But then the weather changed and although things were given and flowering it was cold and windy and it seemed strange there should be all that blossom , wrong like , as if it had made a mistake and popped up at the wrong time — that was because I had felt the warmth of those few nice days . |
| 22 | It acted as a retreat house and training centre for people attached to the Society of Saint Sylvester but , under Racy 's leadership , it had made a name for itself specialising in an area of the church 's work which Theodora thought was undervalued . |
| 23 | Why initially did the stock market react favourably to the increased dividend declared by Lloyds Bank after it had made a loss of 224 million in the financial year 1986–87 ? |
| 24 | Doncaster Health Authority confirmed yesterday that it had made an undisclosed payment to Mr Rod Brodie and his wife , Valerie , both 38 . |
| 25 | It had made an investment and wanted a quick return , and more . |
| 26 | AST Research Inc is determined to come out as one of the winners in the bitter battle for share in the personal computer market , and yesterday it announced that rather than let the business go in the spin-off of the TE Electronics manufacturing operations , it had made an offer for Tandy Corp 's personal computer manufacturing operations , which had been accepted . |
| 27 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 28 | The PLO felt able to play what had been for fifteen years its ‘ last card ’ — recognition of Israel — because it had gained a stronger one through the Uprising . |
| 29 | In losing Law the party had lost a conciliator ; in electing Austen it had gained an inflexible leader who would not always put party first . |
| 30 | It had lodged a legal appeal against its dissolution . |