Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Local Government Board had bought the waterworks three years earlier , and on August 4 1856 it commissioned town surveyor Mr G Mason to design and build the first spouter at the top of Tubwell Row . |
| 2 | At least it got column inches — the worst reviews for years |
| 3 | Rolling Stone was originally a reaction to the underground newspaper look and bit by bit it got art direction and , you know , good illustration , good photography , for this and all that , and then I got in there and pushed the type stuff . |
| 4 | The wet cobbles in the mill-yard only needed huddled operatives arriving for an 18-hour shift in their shawls , but instead it got art critics . |
| 5 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 6 | It was er cut out of palm trees and it got palm trees on hundred feet high , both sides of the runway . |
| 7 | It revealed Ulster youngsters were the most likely to have been offered drugs ( 21pc compared with a national average of 10pc ) , were least likely to drink ( 21pc compared with 30pc ) but were most likely to smoke ( 36pc compared with 18pc ) . |
| 8 | If there was a barb to this speech , it passed Miss Merchiston by . |
| 9 | It led to impossibly puritan attitudes , a crusade against the enjoyments of the artisan , onslaughts on the bullfight , not because it was cruel , but because it wasted working time ; it supported an attack on charity as an anti-social habit , which merged with the bleak belief of later liberals in the virtues of competition . |
| 10 | He has another story that I liked and inevitably it concerned Alex Higgins , that brilliant player who has wasted his talent so often , but who has been one of the greatest stars and the source of endless tales . |
| 11 | It concerned Lord Alfred Douglas who was on this occasion accompanied by Gide ( but not Wilde , who had returned to England ) and a boy called Ali with whom , according to Gide , Douglas was in love . |
| 12 | Earlier this week it asked Crest Homes , the developers of a new primary school for the area , to think again about the proposed site . |
| 13 | This gives no action to Titius , but the SC allows it to be treated as if it read fidei tuae committo ut Titio hereditatem restituas . |
| 14 | By 1968 the war was recognised to be ‘ unwinnable ’ , it divided US society and was proving an enormous drain on economic resources . |
| 15 | In January 1990 it entertained Birmingham alumni at the University 's London reunion . |
| 16 | It appointed Patrick Le Quement , one of the world 's most free-thinking car designers , and gave him the freedom to get on with it . |
| 17 | However , in 1990 the government launched a full-scale economic restructuring package for which it sought World Bank support . |
| 18 | EDS subsequently bought out Bedaux 's share of EDS-Bedaux and it became EDS Spain . |
| 19 | In fact it became standing room only as Mr Duncan Broady , curator of the Greater Manchester Police Museum , gave a fascinating lecture about crime in the period , particularly as it affected Manchester and Salford . |
| 20 | Next day it became bus service 12 , now shared with the blue buses of Fylde Borough . |
| 21 | I used to run an English and Scottish dancing class at the old high school in Cleveland Avenue , before it became Hummersknot School in 1955 where I worked for 22 years part-time , teaching dance . |
| 22 | When it first opened , it sold Molson Ale on draught , which is not a bad drink at all . |
| 23 | Hanson yesterday began the break-up of the Consolidated Gold Field 's empire when it sold ARC Construction to its management for £6.3million . |
| 24 | It sold InfoNow units at $60,000 per unit , each consisting of 20,000 shares of common stock and 20,000 Class C warrants , each of the latter entitling the holder to buy one share of common at $6 by December 30 1997 . |
| 25 | It led William James to call St Augustine , although he lived so long ago , ‘ the first modern man ’ . |
| 26 | As bombshells went , it outclassed Dr Alfred Kinsey 's previous findings about the Human Male . |
| 27 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 28 | From 1905 to 1914 it produced Dursley–Pedersen bicycles . |
| 29 | Abersychan RFC 's main claim to fame is that it produced Bryn Meredith who , at 34 games , is Wales ' most capped hooker . |
| 30 | It produced coal gas . |