Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 2 | Kamara limped off to be replaced by Falconer after 48 minutes and it needed a well-timed sliding tackle by Phillips to deny Guentchev four minutes later . |
| 3 | A man who allowed a greyhound to suffer for six weeks after it broke its leg has been banned from keeping dogs for three years . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | Mr Woodcock , 47 , of Holgate , York , grabbed the weapon with one hand and it went off , blasting a wall with pellets , but he hung on , dragging the raider into the car park outside the restaurant , where he pinned him to the ground until armed police arrived . |
| 6 | ‘ I was quite worried about making it hold up on the screen for two-and-a-half hours and it gave me pause . |
| 7 | She added : ‘ Some of this graffiti appeared within 30 minutes after it had been cleaned . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin . |
| 9 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 10 | On 3 June last the painting was badly slashed in five places when it fell from the wall and caught on the scaffolding used by the restorers ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 11 | Each would be asked to notify the IMF within one month whether it agreed to its share as determined by the IMF ; each successor could formally accede to the IMF once it had met the formal conditions specified . |
| 12 | This process would continue indefinitely , with reversals taking place at intervals of as little as 100,000 years or as much as one million years , but with the overall result that the compass spent about as much time pointing in one direction as it did in the other . |
| 13 | Indeed , it had even baulked over the European Payments Union for five months until it gained complete assurance that it would still be able to retain sole control over sterling as an international reserve currency . |
| 14 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 15 | It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really . |
| 16 | Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta . |
| 17 | And we went to one temple and it got dark whilst we were there , it was called the Monkey Temple , and it 's just so many monkeys around , and they just are allowed to run wild , but by the time we got back to our bikes it was dark and we had to cycle back in the dark without any lights on these unlit , unmade roads and that was quite frightening really . |
| 18 | At the southern end of the valley where the sky was brighter , a horseman now appeared , his dark mount reined in , its head pulling to one side as it slowed then came to a halt . |
| 19 | My dealer suggested I treat them for gill flukes , so I did this on two occasions but it made no difference . |
| 20 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 21 | Lillywhite recovered after crashing just after the Horseshoe Pass climb at Llangollen at 73 miles though it had not been all plain sailing for the Banana team . |
| 22 | Erskine House Group Plc shares nose-dived 14 pence to land at 27 pence after it said that its final dividend for 1992 will , at most , be nominal , saying that January and February had been dire in the US . |
| 23 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |