Example sentences of "it [vb past] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 2 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 3 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |
| 5 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 6 | PC Stephen Noble who attended the scene at the college annex told the coroner a check on the van revealed it had been stolen eleven days previously . |
| 7 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 8 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 9 | It had been reprinted nine times when Walton wrote his Life of Herbert in 1675 . |
| 10 | On 30 July , the last day before the Summer Recess , battered but relieved Ministers , their policy of retention rejected by the elected House but upheld by the hereditary peers , saw the Act finally onto the statute book in largely the same form as it had been introduced nine months earlier . |