Example sentences of "and it [vb past] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sidney works and others on great estates did their own coaling , though Ralph Hogge of Buxted purchased fuel from independent colliers and it formed one of the biggest items in his accounts . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman for the album said : ‘ Last year there was a compilation charity record released to coincide with the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and it sold 100,000 copies . |
| 3 | Of liberal disposition , he opened Thirlestane House to the public and it became one of the greatest attractions of Cheltenham . |
| 4 | And it said thirty five . |
| 5 | It was in the FA Cup 1st Round tie at The Nest against first division opponents Manchester City and it came five minutes after half-time to put us ahead ; we went on to win 2–0 . |
| 6 | The Whitehall switchboard was a model of inefficiency as usual , and it took twelve minutes to try the various rooms and people who might know . |
| 7 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 8 | The house was in bad shape when they bought it and it took six months to finish . |
| 9 | I got caught and it took six policemen to hold me down . |
| 10 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 11 | He was seventy-eight and it took four ambulance workers and Jack to finally get him in the ambulance . |
| 12 | Watering of the services turned out to be a job when the Standard 4 drained the Aberystwyth water tank and it took four trips for the local fire brigade to water Hinton Manor . |
| 13 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 14 | ‘ And it took four years of trials before they did , ’ McGeechan grins . |
| 15 | They did come in , and it took seven of them to get me down to a single cell . |
| 16 | Picture quality was poor and it took 30 seconds to process each frame . |
| 17 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 18 | But for all his troubles Stephen , an amiable and gallant king , had managed to hold on to England and it took three strange twists of fortune to transform the situation . |
| 19 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 20 | All the old signs appeared : I wanted to be sick , my knees kept quivering , and it took three deep-bowled cups of claret before I could even remember what day of the week it was . |
| 21 | I took the bits home in a lorry and it took 25 years to rebuild . |
| 22 | Scotland was still , by contemporary standards , an unusually localized country , in which the government impinged less ; and it had two centuries of experience of long periods of royal minorities in which government and political life had to be kept going without the guiding hand of a monarch . |
| 23 | You were asked to phone in , so , erm , so our phone was out of order , so I had a phone card and it had four units on it . |
| 24 | Hinkley Point , Davis concluded , was technically suitable , its geology sound and it had one important advantage : there was ‘ no strong local opposition and no known County Council objection ’ . |
| 25 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 26 | and it left three halves of the residual estate . |
| 27 | Up until 1917 , the Stroganov Palace belonged to the Stroganov family and it contained one of Russia 's largest private art collections . |
| 28 | ‘ It only came a couple of inches over the white line , he hit the brakes and it shot one way and then the other , ’ he said . |
| 29 | The IGCC plant achieved an energy efficiency of 45-50 per cent , compared to 37 per cent for a conventional coal-fired station with flue-gas desulphurization equipment ; and it produced 10 per cent less carbon dioxide , only a seventh of the sulphur dioxide , a third of the nitrogen oxides , and no methane . |
| 30 | The document argued that a school would be more effective in achieving its aims if they were written down and it suggested six possible aims expressed at a high level of generality , for example : to develop lively enquiring minds … ; to acquire the knowledge and skills relevant to adult life and employment in a fast-changing world . |