Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stocks it sold yesterday were additions to seven existing issues . |
| 2 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 3 | ‘ It used ter be nice when there was only 'orses in that yard . |
| 4 | I think one of the reason why you have n't heard it mentioned specifically is because it is integral to a lot of the bits of work that we 're doing . |
| 5 | Well apparently it had gone to Andrew , and , Andrew had cos Andrew is n't in the office all the time , and he 'd left it in the office , and I think they faxed it by th Andrew was gon na talk to somebody about it , but of course , by the time he 'd got there , it 'd already been done and this had happened so I 'm gon na ring erm Job Centre when I get home . |
| 6 | ‘ Well then , since it was my fault we missed the train again , it 'd better be me who does the talkin' when we get there . |
| 7 | One , what is it , it 'd better be a good one |
| 8 | It 'd better be after all those needles they stuck in me so I wo n't get beri-beri and co . |
| 9 | But I think it 'd better be something original , something with a bit of spice . |
| 10 | ‘ If we 're going to talk to Grandson , 39 , then it 'd better be you who does it . |
| 11 | The Tory vote in the areas where it polled well were elderly , well-off , and often English in origin . |
| 12 | As regards Goody 's sharp distinction between oral and literate cultures , it demonstrates not only that the social reality does not correspond to this ‘ great divide ’ but also that developing a model which enables one to proceed as if it did so is not the only or most fruitful way of proceeding . |
| 13 | Okay , an and so what it said then was that ego , ego is where all these things come together |
| 14 | The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) . |
| 15 | It had since been rebuilt ; its arched windows and roofs made it look like a Russian provincial home . |
| 16 | Clearly , there could be no element of surprise , and although the rebel advance had been rapid until then , it had effectively been halted at the gates of Madrid . |
| 17 | For a long time after independence , English was the language of the educated élite , just as it had largely been that of the colonial administration . |
| 18 | Hitherto it had largely been a matter of intellectual interest and the best-known example was the study of the The Peasant Question ( 1937 — 1938 ) by two of the Party 's foremost members , Truong Chinh and Vo Nguyen Giap . |
| 19 | It had simply been fun , the sort of fun she had with her women friends , except that she had also desired him , and he her . |
| 20 | Now , if it had simply been given to the woman , Common Law would have said , ‘ We can pay no attention to this separate use . |
| 21 | It had traditionally been used for stores and dressing . |
| 22 | Paolo Uccello would have been the most delightful and imaginative genius since Giotto that had adorned the art of painting , if he had devoted as much pains to figures and animals as he did to questions of perspective , for , although these are ingenious and good in their way , yet an immoderate devotion to them causes an infinite waste of time , fatigues nature , clogs the mind with difficulties , and frequently renders it sterile where it had previously been fertile and facile . |
| 23 | It had previously been available only on the German import album , ‘ Diamonds And Porcupines ’ . |
| 24 | It had previously been estimated that £40,000 could be saved ; the Committee decided that this was unrealistic , and reduced the estimate to £25,000 . |
| 25 | It had previously been held in a lower court that a second computer had to be involved ( p 101 ) . |
| 26 | It had previously been decided that the first landing should be away on the metalled runway of Duxford or Cambridge . |
| 27 | He compared the legal systems of different societies , and showed that they varied according to how many laws were based on the principle of repression , and how many on the principle of restoring the situation to what it had previously been ( restitution ) . |
| 28 | But the commission did clarify Gloucester 's position in one area of the north where it had previously been somewhat equivocal . |
| 29 | Unionist concerns were still as much with traditional areas of disagreement with the Liberals as with the War ; the UBC made the running with its concern to shield British industry from the war , much as it had previously been intended to protect it through tariffs , and Stanley Baldwin first made his name through its committees . |
| 30 | It had previously been notorious in some areas for the manipulation of electoral boundaries and for the practice of religious discrimination . |