Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It got rather sort of upgraded . |
| 2 | In the 1960s it averaged almost 5% per annum , in the 1970s this fell to just under 3% . |
| 3 | Since being rebuilt , it 's broken many coveted racing records including the fastest Brooklands lap , in which it averaged almost 140mph . |
| 4 | In the telling it became neither nightmare nor obsession , but a beautiful tale , the stuff of dreams and fairy stories , and Hermione heard it all with tenderness and pleasure while the sun set and the dusk gathered thickly around them . |
| 5 | ‘ Kalliste was the name given to this little lady before it became either Thera or Santorini , and a more singularly inapt name I can not imagine . |
| 6 | Indeed , it became almost de rigueur for a man of substance to put aside a considerable sum for his funeral monument , the £600 spent on the third Earl of Sussex 's memorial being fairly typical . |
| 7 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |
| 8 | McCaw Cellular Communication Inc reported that it sold about 14.5m newly issued shares of Class A common stock to AT&T Co for $400m as part of AT&T 's negotiated attempt to win a 33% stake for $3,730m and acquire an option for voting control of wireless phone company . |
| 9 | The advertisement life was better than her own , but it was crude , amoral : it lacked both virtue and vice . |
| 10 | The movie opened on 19 December 1973 to less-than-glowing reviews , although it made over $22.5 million , becoming one of the year 's top moneymakers . |
| 11 | That it made both Britten 's reputation and , at one stroke , recreated opera in English , a lost cause since the days of Purcell , is today almost a hedge to our seeing it clearly . |
| 12 | Neverthless , most pollsters agree their firms have lost some of their glamour since the late 1980s when financial and media group MAI paid £16m for NOP in 1989 , a year it made just £400,000 profits . |
| 13 | It made only £450,000 from ‘ normal ’ foreign-exchange dealings for customers last year . |
| 14 | It drew together Poles who had little else in common save a hatred of communist rule . |
| 15 | It used both water and steam power , the latter probably installed by Cook . |
| 16 | By 1914 it used both water and steam power . |
| 17 | It crashed yesterday afternoon on a farm at Severnhampton , near Swindon . |
| 18 | It crashed yesterday afternoon on a farm at Severnhampton , near Swindon . |
| 19 | The privately owned Hawker Hunter was on its way to Liverpool Airport from East Anglia when it crashed yesterday afternoon . |
| 20 | It smothered both Garvey and the foot-traveller . |
| 21 | But the massive invasion of France in 1544 proved to be more than twice as expensive as the government had estimated : it cost nearly £650,000 instead of the predicted £250,000 . |
| 22 | It cost nearly £80 to erect the furnace at Worth in 1547 — in the early days at least there was plenty of free money to be put into the new ventures . |
| 23 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |
| 24 | It cost around $900. +1 510 226–1075 |
| 25 | It cost around £7 , the most expensive fast food he 'd ever had . |
| 26 | Twenty years ago it cost only 3p to post a first-class letter , whereas today it costs 24p — an increase of 800 per cent . |
| 27 | When I was there last year it cost only £12 : the rate had gone down due to the Gulf war and the fear of AIDS . |
| 28 | The carrycot , with buggy combined , has been really good value ; it cost about £120 but I 've had so much use out of it already . |
| 29 | Mr Murray said it cost about £100,000 a year for each intensive care bed so it was important not to over-budget for beds which would not be fully used . |
| 30 | In 1978 it cost about $2.50 to have a ton of hazardous waste dropped in a safe hole in the ground ; in 1987 the cost ranged from $200 upwards . |