Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother , Mrs Noelyne Parry , said yesterday : ‘ The show flopped in London but it has become something of a cult in America and was a rave success on Broadway . |
| 2 | It seemed to Elizabeth that it took people half an hour to greet each other each day . |
| 3 | What happened to Italy when it decided to move from the wide band to the narrow band within the ERM ? |
| 4 | It was raining when her flight arrived at Heathrow and it rained all the way back to her flat in Islington . |
| 5 | The Poles filled every available truck and train with Silesian coal and sent it north ; for weeks a fine drifting cloud of coal-dust hung over Danzig and it seemed the port was to become a coal-opolis fit to rival Cardiff , the coal capital of the world . |
| 6 | Helen whispered to Sarah that it had been confirmed that she was pregnant and the baby was due in late November . |
| 7 | Touche Ross announced on Tuesday that it had formed a new international firm , Deloitte Ross Tohmatsu ( DRT ) without Deloitte UK . |
| 8 | However , Continental Airlines , which had entered Chapter 11 protection during 1990 , said in November that it had reduced its operating deficits . |