Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] it [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | a similar point arose where it proposed to serve the writ and an Anton Piller order out of the jurisdiction on a Belgian company . |
| 2 | AFP reported that it had received the information from the Paris-based dissident group , the Federation for Democracy in China . |
| 3 | On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown . |
| 4 | In its first communiqués the PFKG announced that it had replaced the " defunct and corrupt " al Sabah regime and had closed Kuwait 's borders and imposed an indefinite curfew . |
| 5 | However , they were soon to show their hand and in October 1981 the DES announced that it had asked the local authorities to give urgent consideration to the possibility of setting up short-term machinery to deal with the management and funding of maintained advanced further education . |
| 6 | In combination with the raids , the Israeli Army announced that it had increased the number of soldiers deployed in the West Bank by 20 per cent . |
| 7 | The Ladbroke Group announced that it had acquired the 505 room Dom Hotel in Berlin , one of East Germany 's most prestigious hotels , as the Berlin Hilton . |
| 8 | Only this week , Whitbread announced that it had won the franchise to operate TGI Friday 's restaurants in Canada , Washington State and Oregon . |
| 9 | Mehta 's assets , as well as those of 30 other individuals and companies implicated in the case , were seized on June 8 ; on June 14 the government announced that it had frozen the assets of three senior bank officials of the State Bank of India . |
| 10 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 11 | In November 1989 the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced that it had approved the drawing of the final sum , equivalent to 7,460,000 special drawing rights ( SDRs — approximately US$9,500,000 ) , in support of Nepal 's economic and financial programme for 1989-90 under the SDR26,110,000 structural adjustment facility ( SAF ) first agreed in October 1987 [ see also pp. 36008-09 ] . |
| 12 | Japan on Jan. 22 announced that it had approved the export of 27 tonnes of surgical anaesthetics . |
| 13 | On Feb. 21 the Military Council announced that it had restored the 1921 Constitution of the Georgian Democratic Republic . |
| 14 | On May 7 the CTU announced that it had suspended the general strike from May 8 , and called for the formation of a new government capable of tackling " national and economic issues " . |
| 15 | On Feb. 20 the government announced that it had postponed the presentation of the 1991-92 budget , due to be placed before the Lok Sabha on Feb. 28 . |
| 16 | Hungary also announced that it had requested the complete withdrawal of all Soviet troops by the end of 1991 [ see p. 37195 ] . |
| 17 | The West German government on Dec. 6 announced that it planned to reduce the size of its armed forces to 420,000 by 1995 , a reduction of 75,000 , or 15 per cent . |
| 18 | On June 6 the government announced that it wanted to join the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and that it would sign the 1975 Helsinki Final Act . |
| 19 | On Dec. 27 the government announced that it intended to end the sectarian dispute by acquiring the contested site and building both a mosque and a Hindu temple . |
| 20 | Critics argued that it had legitimised the Soviet system in Eastern Europe without providing anything meaningful in return . |
| 21 | Buxton believed that it had lost the confidence and interest of the country because of its practice of negotiating secretly with ministers instead of acting in the open . |
| 22 | ARGENTINA last night reaffirmed its claim to the Falklands , but added that it intended to recover the islands peacefully . |
| 23 | In fact Libya 's only legal infraction came when it offered to release the two to the Arab League . |
| 24 | I am not here to defend British Rail 's management decisions — I am usually better at condemning them — but during the passage of the legislation to which my hon. Friend referred earlier , British Rail stated that it had picked the least safe of the 100 crossings to which I have referred . |
| 25 | The ministry yesterday confirmed that it intended to slaughter the birds . |
| 26 | In a rare act of editorial humility , the paper acknowledged that it had made the same mistake itself . |
| 27 | Public Information Minister Choi Chang Yoon claimed that it had turned the tide in the government 's struggle with the latest wave of student unrest , the worst to have been experienced by the Roh administration . |
| 28 | The government also stressed its record of liberalizing the economy and five years of continuous growth , while Labour claimed that it had mismanaged the public finances by allowing the national debt to double . |
| 29 | The Islamic Jihad of Palestine group claimed that it had planted the bomb in protest at the Rishon Le Zion killings . |
| 30 | Instead , by separating transmission from both generation and transmission , the government showed that it had rejected the dangers of efficiency losses due to fragmentation in favour of the potential benefits of competition . |