Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle used to tease him about it and it became a standing joke . ’ |
| 2 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |
| 3 | It was at this time that the Club first negotiated to use the cricket field for ‘ tuition ’ and it became an overflow car park in 1966 . |
| 4 | The Global Strategy paper that they produced pleased Churchill , and it became the starting point for the development of British military strategy in the nuclear era . |
| 5 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 6 | The whining motor could n't cope with the long grass by the fence , and it melted the extension cable when Pa forgot to unwind it fully from its blue plastic drum . |
| 7 | Wednesday 's Harkes missed two chances and it took a first-half strike from right-back Roland Nilsson to show the frontmen how to do it . |
| 8 | There was a scientific hiatus and it took the Butt Report and the prodding of the C-in-C to trigger off an effort in this direction , GEE was an excellent start , but soon negated by jamming . |
| 9 | The Germans , too , began with tariffs more favourable to farming than industry , and it took the McKinley tariff in the U.S.A. and the enormous Russian protective duties to convert the German rulers to protection for their manufacturers . |
| 10 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 11 | It was too big and it had a fur collar . |
| 12 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
| 13 | First constructed in 1936 , the locomotive operated passenger trains between London Euston and Glasgow Central over the West Coast Main Line and it achieved the speed record for its class at over 100mph near Leighton Buzzard ! |
| 14 | Phillipps bought the two-volume monastic Bible from him and it acquired the Mill Hill number MS 2506 . |
| 15 | Judge Cox said that he was satisfied that in the summer of 1990 there was foam on the surface of the River Creedy for significant periods and it damaged the fishing rights . |
| 16 | The increased frequency of the small fragment in the patients with gastric ulcer ( 36.1% ) compared with controls ( 19.4% ) , was statistically significant ( χ 2 , 23.83 ; p<0.005 ) , and it yielded an odds ratio of 2.35 ( 95% confidence limits , 1.37 to 4.02 ) ( Table I ) . |
| 17 | The increased frequency of the small fragment in patients with gastric body ulcer ( 44.6% ) , compared with controls ( 19.4% ) was statistically significant ( χ 2 = 16.20 ; p<0.005 ) , and it yielded an odds ratio of 3.34 ( 95% confidence limits , 1.83 to 6.12 ) ( Table II ) . |
| 18 | It introduced successive generations of students to an emergent radical subculture , and it provided a transmission belt through which a small minority became involved in illegal political activity . |
| 19 | This way needed no search : the substance later known as allopurinol had already been synthesized by Hitchings and his colleagues , and it inhibited the enzyme xanthine oxidase ( which converts xanthine to uric acid and mercaptopurine to thio-uric acid ) . |
| 20 | And it gave the Air Force a chance to regroup . |
| 21 | This got to the heart of the matter , the need to make reality out of pious hopes , and it recognized the propaganda value of a contest between a Labour candidate and a Unionist working man in a critical by-election . |
| 22 | He said Mr Gummer had been ‘ out to Mr Lilley 's holiday cottage , and it cost the taxpayer £2,000 for him to fly back when they could fly back for less than £200 apiece ’ . |
| 23 | Cray Research Inc has taken a hit from Standard & Poor 's Corp , which lowered its subordinated debt rating to triple-B-minus from triple-B and it revised the ratings outlook to stable from negative , affecting about $106m of rated debt . |
| 24 | And it started the pension payments at a younger age or something ? |
| 25 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 26 | There was only one big road to cross , but it had a zebra crossing and she had been road-safe at Phoebe 's insistence for years . |
| 27 | Nobody took any notice of a dead dog , but it had a timing device that blew a charge against the gate . |
| 28 | But it had a promenade deck , like the Hindenburg , and carried its passengers in considerable luxury even allowing for the natural exaggeration of the Imperial Airways Gazette : ‘ passengers making air journeys in the new Empire type flying boats of Imperial Airways not only express their admiration for the speed and quietness in flight of these air liners , and for the spaciousness of their saloons , but they also pay warm tributes to the efficiency of their catering arrangement ’ . |
| 29 | Rose Cottage did not have a garage , but it had a parking space formed by sacrificing most of the front garden . |
| 30 | Libya was still a Kingdom in those days but it had no aviation legislation , so the entire investigation was conducted in accordance with Annex 13 , though with considerable emphasis on the British interpretation of it . |