Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [subord] it [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 2 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 3 | Grundy rescued it for the Channel 10 network after it had proved a massive flop on rival Channel 7 . |
| 4 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 5 | In mid-March LVMH reduced its debts by selling part of those businesses , the Lanson brand , only three months after it had bought it . |
| 6 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 7 | He did not merely jump on the bandwagon of the great railway boom , but rethought the whole business from scratch and — with sound reasoning — adopted a broad gauge ( 7 feet ) which only had to be converted to the ‘ standard ’ gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches after nearly sixty years because it had become isolated from the rest of the country 's railway network . |
| 8 | Once one of the world 's most profitable firms , Big Blue last year tumbled to a record-breaking $1 billion loss as it struggled to keep up with technical change , plummeting prices and a wave of new competition in the computer market . |
| 9 | It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really . |
| 10 | ‘ I still use Marshalls and I 've got a 100-watt head , although it 's nowhere near as good as an early '60s 50-watt Marshall which I used for about nine years before it got stolen . |
| 11 | The first bird lay pinioned there for four or five seconds before it managed to break free and fly off . |
| 12 | It is unlikely that the ILP retained more than half its membership one year after it had left the Labour Party . |
| 13 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 14 | It struck two cars as it came to rest . |
| 15 | The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left , having never got to see Macquairie , the south coast , or the promising territory around Port Davy . |
| 16 | Carden is Europe 's most northerly commercial vineyard and in the four years since it opened has already established itself in the wine market . |
| 17 | The result , confirmed by the Jockey Club 24 hours after it had sought to head off rumours of a doping scandal , heightens speculation that horses are being ‘ got at ’ . |