Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its moral claims were , in the most literal sense of the word , conservative , in that it enjoined ancient truths and established values , and Samuel Johnson as well as William Blake was a hero . |
| 2 | This too could not compel the defendant , condemned to restore , to do so , but it applied conspicuous Pressure : if he did so , well and good ; if not , the plaintiff was allowed to make his own valuation of the property , and it was this which would become the damages awarded by the judge . |
| 3 | Thus , falling into the technocrats ' natural sin , it mistook administrative device for organic substance . |
| 4 | It owned two bus stations in Southampton . |
| 5 | By the summer of 1992 , when the last count was made , it owned 19,056 works . |
| 6 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 7 | It engendered immediate feelings of friendship , of belonging . |
| 8 | And it succeeded last night , courtesy of Iain Dowie 's excellent strike in the ninth minute of this World Cup Group Three game — and four world-class saves from Wright afterwards . |
| 9 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 10 | Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing . |
| 11 | But we could n't go ashore until it got better ad then we went round the cape after and down into Aberdeen see . |
| 12 | ‘ It got legal counsel , so we were forced to get legal representation on our side , ’ Mr Robinson pointed out . |
| 13 | It was performed at The Lincoln Centre in New York and it got great reviews . |
| 14 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 15 | The Met receives about $13 million a year for operations from New York City , $3 million less than it got two years ago . |
| 16 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 17 | And the press did come down , I mean it got some coverage . |
| 18 | It got 23 seats . |
| 19 | Why it got this name I 've no idea , as the so called ‘ bees ’ , looking rather like the cereal Sugar Puffs , were reputed to be an Australian fungus with yeast-like properties . |
| 20 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 21 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 22 | Those disciples , they had the storm stilled for them and it got easier sailing . |
| 23 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 24 | Mr Toombs had been a founder member of the British premonitions Bureau in 1967 ( it registered 500 premonitions , most of which were concerned with major transport disasters ) . |
| 25 | East Anglia and the South-West continued to grow , as did the South-East until 1966 , then it experienced net loss owing to the massive haemorrhage from the capital . |
| 26 | In common with a limited number of other regions of the UK , it experienced early industrialisation . |
| 27 | This treaty empowered France to exercise certain sovereign powers on behalf of Morocco , provided it respected all treaty obligations to which Morocco had been subject before the formation of the Protectorate . |
| 28 | Kelly believes the Gallup survey will accelerate the progress of the bookmakers ' lobby at the Home Office , for it revealed potential benefits for racing and the Government . |
| 29 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 30 | ‘ The Doctor said it transmitted mental power … . ’ |