Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Present owners British & Commonwealth announced that it hoped to raise an estimated £130 million by putting it up for sale . |
| 2 | Although it was relatively ineffective , the fact that it was considerably safer than mercury meant that it remained in the pharmacopoeia of many countries until the twentieth century . |
| 3 | D'Hazeville 's was described in The Saturday Review as ‘ tame and commonplace ’ , although the assessors and Burn thought that it had sufficient merits to be placed fourth on their War Department lists . |
| 4 | At that time the presence of these pupils was seen as a problem , one that would very probably get worse before ( and most people predicted ) natural processes of assimilation and dispersal meant that it got better . |
| 5 | The boy stood up and his expression of mixed defiance and desperation showed that it had cost him something to enter this house . |
| 6 | The error was spotted after work began and it cost £70,000 to raise the bridge . |