Example sentences of "it [vb past] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | If there was a barb to this speech , it passed Miss Merchiston by . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | By 1968 the war was recognised to be ‘ unwinnable ’ , it divided US society and was proving an enormous drain on economic resources . |
| 6 | In January 1990 it entertained Birmingham alumni at the University 's London reunion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When it first opened , it sold Molson Ale on draught , which is not a bad drink at all . |
| 10 | Hanson yesterday began the break-up of the Consolidated Gold Field 's empire when it sold ARC Construction to its management for £6.3million . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It led William James to call St Augustine , although he lived so long ago , ‘ the first modern man ’ . |
| 13 | As bombshells went , it outclassed Dr Alfred Kinsey 's previous findings about the Human Male . |
| 14 | The area has made a unique contribution to Welsh commerce and to Welsh culture , not least because it produced Shirley Bassey , among others . |
| 15 | From 1905 to 1914 it produced Dursley–Pedersen bicycles . |
| 16 | Abersychan RFC 's main claim to fame is that it produced Bryn Meredith who , at 34 games , is Wales ' most capped hooker . |
| 17 | He was man enough to smile , and it made Arthur Marshall laugh , which was always a wonderful sight . |
| 18 | It made Auntie Lou nervous to be asked direct questions . |
| 19 | There was such an awful mockery in that face that it made Tuan Ti Fo want to strike it with his fist . |
| 20 | It made Friday night seem like Monday afternoon . |
| 21 | When consultancy Sena BPA bought shares in Keydata last September , it made Jacobo Garcia Duran managing director of the Institute . |
| 22 | It made David Bowie a star . |
| 23 | It spawned the Bladud tale , it made Francis Peck subtitle his Antiquarian Annals of Stanford of 1727 Academia Tercia Anglicana , or ‘ The Third English University ’ , and it fuelled the fertile minds of William Stukeley and later Victorian romantics . |
| 24 | She doubted if it was anywhere near the truth , but clearly it made Miss Beard happy . |
| 25 | It made Mr Singleton smile . |
| 26 | It was all very deliberate , keeping the interrogators ' faces dark against the bright window , and it made Maxim grin . |
| 27 | It made Betty Gilling strangely uneasy . |
| 28 | Geoffrey and Anthony were sitting at the end of Penzance Gardens , where it met Princedale Road . |
| 29 | It met SDLP leader John Hume in Londonderry yesterday before travelling back to Belfast for discussions with Alliance and Sinn Fein . |
| 30 | It involved Avro Tudor G-AKBY which crashed in the Llandow circuit on March 20 , 1950 . |