Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 A split in the Estonian Communist Party was recognized by the Jan. 31 plenum when it elected to the politburo Lembit Annus , who was first secretary of a recently created " Estonian CP on the CPSU platform " .
2 The result , confirmed by the Jockey Club 24 hours after it had sought to head off rumours of a doping scandal , heightens speculation that horses are being ‘ got at ’ .
3 It was in the February 1992 issue and it looked a bit complicated but so do most things before you actually have a go .
4 Back in the 1950s Jim Corbett gave the tiger ten years before it became extinct .
5 It is unlikely that the ILP retained more than half its membership one year after it had left the Labour Party .
6 But how could the kidnappers have known about your arrival in Perugia five hours before it happened ?
7 To cut a long story short , the church was granted special provision to use the building twelve months before it became generally available ; I was elected to the executive and later became a trustee of the community centre .
8 Er he attended to me and I should n't have done but I looked at my notes at th bottom of the bed one day and it said , Interference denied .
9 So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on .
10 Finally available in English two years after it scandalised Russia , this is the tale of Irina , a femme fatale who sleeps her way to the top echelons of Moscow high life .
11 Grundy rescued it for the Channel 10 network after it had proved a massive flop on rival Channel 7 .
12 Once one of the world 's most profitable firms , Big Blue last year tumbled to a record-breaking $1 billion loss as it struggled to keep up with technical change , plummeting prices and a wave of new competition in the computer market .
13 ‘ I saw Mick and Jerry two days before it came out in the papers and they seemed absolutely fine , ’ he says .
14 In Briggs [ 1987 ] Crim LR 708 the accused was seen riding a motorbike two days after it had been taken without lawful authority .
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