Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board announced yesterday it had chosen Berisford ‘ as the party to proceed to the next stage of negotiations ’ with a view to making an offer for Clark . |
| 2 | A MAN who successfully traced a forces pal through the columns of The Northern Echo said yesterday it had brought bad news . |
| 3 | Where Methodism succeeded locally it tended to be of the brand , Lady Huntingdon 's , which appealed most to middling townsfolk . |
| 4 | After Maman went away it excited her to hurt somebody . |
| 5 | The constant streams of traffic flowing past it gave it the appearance of an ocean liner in a sea full of tiny fish . |
| 6 | As she saw it , this meant becoming as drab and acquiescent as possible , and until her temper and gaiety erupted again it worked . |
| 7 | A Muslim officer who recently quit the Yugoslav army claimed yesterday it had massively armed Serbian militiamen in Bosnia and co-ordinated plans to partition the republic along ethnic lines . |
| 8 | But it is doubtful if this argument will lead to any exceptions being made in an orchestrated campaign which could hit projects such as the proposals for a power plant which British Gas said yesterday it had negotiated with Bahrain . |
| 9 | Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property . |
| 10 | The Bank said yesterday it did not believe there was any case for giving extra compensation to UK depositors beyond the statutory deposit protection scheme . |
| 11 | Israel 's Justice Ministry said yesterday it accepted evidence that Mengele is dead . |
| 12 | In addition , the company confirmed yesterday it defaulted on an $800m Eurobond issue secured by a tower in Manhattan 's World Financial Centre . |
| 13 | West Country pubs group J A Devenish said yesterday it had leased 115 pubs from Whitbread for eight years . |