Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 2 | By the end of the decade it was Gloucester , not the bishop , who dominated the region and contemporaries knew it . |
| 3 | During the 1920s writers and artists used it as their club and about ten thousand letters arrived there daily for clients who were staying in Paris or elsewhere in Europe . |
| 4 | Sides are coming here to block us and Spurs did it very well . ’ |
| 5 | In London , the City Panel of Takeovers and Mergers said it was following the situation . |
| 6 | A transitional coalition government led by Popov and comprising the BSP , the UDF , the BZNS and independents replaced it on Dec. 20 [ see pp. 37865 ; 37923 ] . |
| 7 | Poulson and Associates made it clear that they were not a ‘ financial development company ’ but that they could locate a suitable such investor for the scheme . |
| 8 | Jeffrey 's family and supporters suspected it to be a plot hatched by Captain Lake and his friends . |
| 9 | The councillors loved it , and journalists filed it away for some distant future when Mr Portillo might feature in a Conservative leadership election , writes Valerie Elliott . |
| 10 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 11 | Coatings used to have separate plants in each country , because local tariffs and duties made it too costly to import . |
| 12 | She died my grandfather died and blacks got it just sold up ! |
| 13 | In the ninth century , one poet praised its beauty , while another drowned in it ; salt-traders and vintners plied it as a matter of routine ; nobles and religious communities with estates on both sides of it had boats ready for regular crossings and landing-stages where their men could send off surplus produce for sale and unload imports for their masters ' consumption ; Vikings contemplated arduous upstream journeys , but quick getaways ; Charles the Bald , worried over strategic problems , planned the river 's blocking , and policing , and also exploited the symbolic possibilities of meetings at Orléans , Fleury , Cosne , Meung , Pouilly to which nobles must come from Aquitaine by crossing the river while Charles himself received his visitors on the Frankish side . |
| 14 | But by 1870 even larger ships and cargoes made it necessary to create a new port , or outport , at Avonmouth . |
| 15 | It could not control its folding legs , and Nails helped it , holding its backside up while it propped up its front end . |
| 16 | But only a small group of teachers and parents saw it get underway . |
| 17 | The pound dropped yesterday by almost 4 1/2 pfennigs as foreign investors switched into the powerful German currency — and economists said it could fall under 2.40 by next week . |
| 18 | Various groups of psychotherapists and psychologists took it up , but hypnotherapy was soon overshadowed by the development of Sigmund Freud 's psychoanalytic movement , which relied on free association instead . |
| 19 | A tall chimney above the heating plant and workshops made it look rather like a factory under guard . |
| 20 | Not least , the absence of any serious rationing of consumer goods , and the large number of exemptions from military service for skilled workers and farmers made it appear that the regime was well in control of developments , did not fear a war on the 1914–18 scale , and was even rather generous in its provisioning arrangements . |
| 21 | A special regime for international headquarters companies enabling them to pay foreign income dividends ( FIDs ) from foreign source income without paying ACT ‘ should bring benefits to the UK economy ’ , the Institute of Taxation said , but the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and wales said it was unlikely to attract many new companies . |
| 22 | The Silverhill depot is shared by the department 's Water and Roads Services and sources said it would house millions of pounds worth of plant and equipment . |
| 23 | Whether Crawford liked it or not , critics and audiences found it difficult to watch this new character without Frank Spencer and his other previous creations in the back of their minds . |
| 24 | When Symphony was originally launched in July 1984 it was the first integrated business software package and the fact that it comprised a spreadsheet , word processing , database , graphics and communications led it to be acclaimed as having a good user interface and being a very complex and powerful program . |
| 25 | BRAVE Aaron Solomon , seven , had his thumb ripped off in a farm accident and surgeons sewed it back on after it was packed in ice lollies by his uncle . |
| 26 | The WI also voted , ’ she said , ‘ and members wanted it to be retained . ’ |
| 27 | Relations of CAP leaders and regular local government officials were often difficult , and critics saw it as giving an open invitation to agitators . |
| 28 | The cherry and whites had it all to do . |
| 29 | Often only the absence of sabres and bullets differentiated it from full-scale war . |
| 30 | Mums and toddlers thought it was wonderful , we only had half a dozen you see in there cos it was low numbers all round so we had low numbers in the |