Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 . |
| 2 | It got did he ? |
| 3 | Within a year of the triumphant conclusion of the Peace Ballot , the consensus that it registered had entirely disintegrated . |
| 4 | As new crust emerged at mid-oceanic ridges , they suggested , it became magnetized with the polarity of the prevailing magnetic field ( Fig. 2.13 ) . |
| 5 | The War of the Spanish Succession and the financial strain it involved reduced France 's strength at sea to a very low ebb , so that in 1719 she possessed only 49 ships of all rates . |
| 6 | Redpath had seen violent death in many forms , and to some extent the technical problems it involved clouded the human side of it . |
| 7 | The newspaper insisted it would fight any legal proceedings , which it maintained lacked ‘ a sense of due proportion ’ . |
| 8 | Further , he became aware that the district has incurred a financial loss on most of the courses it had arranged in the county : in 1936–37 for example the seven courses it provided had led to an aggregated deficit of £92 for the year . |
| 9 | Whether the storm blew itself out quickly or not , the seas it moved took longer to reach their height , and longer , too , to die away . |
| 10 | Although , by now , many of the arguments it used had been well aired , the letter created a great impression . |
| 11 | They say that it wes the different claes that done it — the way the butler dressed — an it hed looked at the claes an taen a bad wey o the claes . |
| 12 | The GAO report cites the instance of one storage tank which it estimated had leaked between 50,000 and 800,000 gallons of radioactive water over a ten-year period up to 1978 , against the operators ' reporting of 5,000 gallons . |
| 13 | But by then the Soviet Union no longer had any faith in the sincerity of a government which it believed had encouraged Fascism for many years . |
| 14 | The ANC , while welcoming the plan for the constitution to be drafted by an elected body , rejected other aspects of the proposals which it believed left the government as " both player and referee " in the first period of the transition . |
| 15 | I believe the denial of the PSI report and the furore it caused occurred precisely because it managed to get beneath the surface of police culture to explore the deep structures of belief and to comment adversely about their influence on police activities . |
| 16 | If the rodent it ate had been heavily dosed , the cat may die . |
| 17 | And his kiss when it came had a new depth and intensity born of the freedom they had both found during the past moments . |
| 18 | Following weeks of arguments , which had gradually become more and more bitter , the crunch when it came had been swift and brutal . |
| 19 | By and large , those who approved of conscription when it came did so because they believed that it was everyone 's duty to serve in the armed forces in any case . |
| 20 | The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable . |
| 21 | Three shadow boxes Monday 's deaths column recorded the passing of Chris Hunter , who for donkeys years or so it seemed had had a sweet shop between our house and the football ground in Shildon . |
| 22 | The brigade that it faced had been forced to give ground . |
| 23 | THAILAND 'S Foreign Ministry yesterday suffered a public relations fiasco when it failed to produce five Vietnamese soldiers it claimed had been captured inside Cambodia after Hanoi 's much-publicised troop withdrawal from Cambodia last week . |
| 24 | Tension in the ambulance dispute was heightened as management in London published a list of 999 calls which it claimed had not been answered . |
| 25 | Tension in the ambulance dispute was heightened as management in London published a list of 999 calls it claimed had not been answered . |
| 26 | Tension in the ambulance dispute was heightened as management in London published a list of 999 calls which it claimed had not been answered . |
| 27 | The UFF killed a Catholic on Jan. 9 , and on Jan. 15 it killed a Protestant builder who it claimed had been an informer for the security forces . |
| 28 | Iraq on Sept. 28 agreed to release a 44-member International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) team , detained on Sept. 23 and 24 , which had refused to surrender files it claimed revealed " the administrative structure of Iraq 's nuclear weapons programme " . |
| 29 | The Iraqi government submitted a 300-page report which it claimed gave full details of its arms of mass destruction . |
| 30 | But what was probably more significant was the fact that the target of the DHAC , the Unionist administration at the Guildhall , was so widely execrated and the fact that the ammunition it fired had already been prepared by more traditional anti-Unionists . |