Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For it mistook Darren and Michelle Fryer for a giant heating boiler . |
| 2 | It inhabited plateaux and lowlands of the Cretaceous and preyed on duckbilled dinosaurs such as the giant sauropodomorphs . |
| 3 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 4 | It sold dollars and European currency units for pounds in a determined fashion to counter heavy selling , which briefly pushed the pound down below DM2.95 for the first time since August 1987 . |
| 5 | So er and ripped off some letters blah blah blah , so that 's ongoing , you know it 's going to be replaced and the er people who did it admitted liability and so forth . |
| 6 | In interviews with a number of panel members filling various roles in the project , and including members of the coordinating committee , it was generally acknowledged that the panel was often less than well chaired , with a fairly universal feeling that it lacked direction and a clear sense of purpose . |
| 7 | It lacked co-ordination and Morrissey 's ability to surprise people with words , seemed strangely lacking . |
| 8 | It lacked clarity and individual resolution . |
| 9 | Congruity as found in Berlin was monotonous and although Paris had magnificence and splendour , it lacked beauty and variety . |
| 10 | All this was by the way , however , except that it lent background and depth to the smile he gave Howard as he shook hands . |
| 11 | It redefined treason and sedition and severely constrained the freedoms of meeting , speech and writing , and it funded a massive output of loyalist pamphleteering to counteract the Rights of Man . |
| 12 | It made sense and she did n't like it . |
| 13 | It made sense and yet he had learned never to take anything for granted in this game . |
| 14 | Instead , it made men and women sick for weeks . ’ |
| 15 | The Company supplied all churches and chapels in both Wolverton and New Bradwell with free gas , coke and water ( with the exception of the Salvation Army , because it made street and public house collections ) , until nationalisation . |
| 16 | We believe it endangered lives and should be condemned . |
| 17 | The three powers issued a joint ultimatum to Japan demanding retraction of the Liaodong cession on the grounds that it endangered Beijing and invalidated Korean independence . |
| 18 | Before it met Eve and became a star , the apple was a humble fruit , a gift from the holy Tree of Life , which accumulated meaning in many cultures long before the Garden of Eden myth took shape . |
| 19 | It went to the womb it met maggot and rottenness |
| 20 | With his law of primitive socialist accumulation Preobrazhensky saw it essentially as being conditions which were imposed upon the Soviet economy ; either the state sector will grow or it will succumb to the private sector , but the ‘ law ’ itself is only manifested by a series of conditions which were conscious acts upon the part of the Soviet state , since it involved plans and planning . |
| 21 | The mill then passed through the Webb family until around 1700 , when it changed hands and was mortgaged to John Fowler , a Stroud textile dealer . |
| 22 | The crux of the criticism directed at the Labour Party , in particular , is that while it provided food and medical help it did little to try to persuade the British government to end its policy of non-intervention towards Spain . |
| 23 | In England it provided sails and cables for the fleet ; and for this reason , legislation going back to the reign of Henry VIII required that a small proportion of land be set aside for its production . |
| 24 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 25 | Then it created fire and water ; and when it had brought them together , Ohrmazd came into existence , and simultaneously Time became Creator and Lord with regard to the creation it had brought forth . |
| 26 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |
| 27 | It retained water and yet had subtle membranes which permitted air to penetrate and facilitated waste disposal of the embryo . |
| 28 | They actually had a vested interest in having inequality within the coun er er because it , it retained classes and therefore potential class conflict within the countryside and therefore it offered a way forward to socialism . |
| 29 | ‘ The cot was a major item ; it cost £120 and I bought a spring mattress which cost £20 . |
| 30 | ‘ It cost £500 and I really ca n't see what my boys got out of it . |