Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [noun] [vb past] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard took his brother 's car that night , and a witness who saw the accident on the Birdlip bypass said it happened in the dark , the car left the road without attempting to follow the curve of the road . |
| 2 | When it downgraded Italy this week , the rating agency said it feared that future governments might fail to pursue the tough policies needed to bring Italian public spending under control . |
| 3 | ‘ It was changed from the original Florizel Street because Agnes the tea lady thought it sounded like disinfectant , ’ said Warren . |
| 4 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 5 | The Salvation Army said it acknowledged with gratitude the faithful and caring service of the staff over the years . |
| 6 | The SDLP and Sinn Fein have both accepted invitations for discussions , while the Alliance Party said it had not yet received any formal communication about the visit . |
| 7 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 8 | The South Korean government said that all domestic electronic communications companies will be freed to operate voice mail and wireless data communications services later this half : the communications ministry said it planned to reinforce financial and tax support to foster these sectors , currently dominated by Korea Telecom before it opens the market to foreigners next year . |
| 9 | In the absence of a ruling as to whether Airtours ' offer is to be referred to the Monopolies Commission , the City watchdog said it had decided to ‘ freeze ’ day 39 of the bid . |
| 10 | The city council decided it had to be cleaned up , the union demanded exceptional payments deadlock . |
| 11 | ‘ The police doctor said it had gone straight through my cheek . ’ |
| 12 | Announcing half time results yesterday , the food retailer said it spent £384m in the first half of the year improving the quality and efficiency of the business . |
| 13 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 14 | The last great campaign to revise social style — the so-called anti-spiritual pollution drive six years ago - petered out after only a few months when even the party leadership acknowledged it had more important things to worry about than enforcing short hair and dreary clothes . |
| 15 | In a statement the Prison Service said it wanted to clarify the situation in view of misleading accounts of the operation of the Compassionate Home Leave Scheme . |
| 16 | Commenting on an earlier , leaked draft version of the report , a Friends of the Earth spokesman said it gave the lie to government claims that water quality was improving . |
| 17 | The White House admitted it had known of the plot for days and had not discouraged the rebels . |
| 18 | And there was a Yorkshire firm covered it covered that road tarmac or something they said , It 'll last twenty years . |
| 19 | THE opponents of a major pylon scheme received a boost yesterday when a government department confirmed it intended to lodge a formal objection to the route . |
| 20 | * Brazilian timber company Gethal Amazonia has been fined a record of £1.4 million after a helicopter survey revealed it had illegally chopped down Amazon rain forest trees |
| 21 | However , a police spokesman said it seemed nobody had broken in , though children were seen running away . |