Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still ran away from him but he grabbed it again at the second attempt before it went over the line and the chance had gone . |
| 2 | The number 1 seed played to form again in the second leg as it moved to Coventry . |
| 3 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 4 | NATIONAL Express has enjoyed a one-way ticket to profitability , the coach operator revealed today in its first results since it floated on the stock market . |
| 5 | With exactly half the seats in the Congress the PSOE was without an absolute majority for the first time since it came to power in 1982 . |
| 6 | Highlight is the Manx International over three laps ( 113 miles ) , which goes back Am/Pro for the first time since it started in 1936 . |
| 7 | His eye fell on it for the first time as it sprang onto the marble plinth and clutched at the neck of the vase to steady itself . |
| 8 | In this conception labourism predated the party , for it was during the second half of the nineteenth century that it emerged as an identifiable political culture within the working class ( Saville 1973 ) . |
| 9 | Antisemitism was not the creation of the nineteenth century but it revived in intensity about 1880 . |
| 10 | In Hampstead : Building a Borough , 1650–1964 ( 1974 ) Professor F. M. L. Thompson has shown how the old settlement preserved its isolated character well into the nineteenth century because it lay off the main lines of communication out of the capital . |
| 11 | The rest had overrun Abernethy and crossed the Earn higher up , by the last ford before it flowed into the Tay . |
| 12 | Above all he turned his anger towards Kenamun , who , on grounds of security , had forbidden Huy to visit the scene of the third murder when it came to light , where he might have had a chance at last of studying the circumstances of death . |
| 13 | The new ‘ baby ’ BMW — the third edition since it evolved in 1975 — remains first and foremost a driver 's car . |
| 14 | and er , it was gone eleven I would of thought , anyway he stopped and I slept like a log , got up at twenty past six , but erm , it 's a strange thing because one of those came last evening and it parked outside George 's , now I said yesterday , when Alan goes to work , it 's not long after six normally to go up to London and that |
| 15 | I mean I 've put some Vicks on my chest last night and it felt as if it was burning ! |
| 16 | I was DJing at the Hacienda last Wednesday and it closed at 2am : that was very weird . |
| 17 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 18 | The gondola which takes skiers from load level up to the skiing area proved as popular with visitors last summer as it had in its first winter , with tourists of all ages and states of infirmity able to enjoy the marvellous view along Loch Eli and the Great Glen . |
| 19 | In 1972 the US spent three times more on family planning in the Third World than it did on health : ‘ It 's a right-wing plot ’ , some declared . |
| 20 | In 1972 the US spent three times as much on family planning programmes in the Third World as it did on health programmes . |
| 21 | It 's come in in different ways , maths , English and science from Spring Gardens is separate separate sheets which we can actually take out the files and give to each department , there 's no problem there Saint John 's again , is separate sheets , Collingwood is n't , it 's actually on photocopiable sheets , we either cut them up and give them out separately in some form or whatever , and what I 've , what we hope to do over the next maybe this year is to ask them for a sheet each , for each subject that we can actually take out of the file and give to each department , so that is has arrived , it ha did arrive last year but it arrived in such hotch botch that we did n't actually give it out , but we certainly have it this year and Marian and I certainly , Marian anyway will get that together and give it out to departments . |
| 22 | With a careless shrug , he says : ‘ My flat was burgled last year and it occurred to me then not much of it was important . ’ |