Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 22 China announced that it had not " provided any military assistance to the resistance forces in Cambodia " since the UN agreed its peace plan in October . |
| 2 | On Nov. 10 Byelarus said that it had uncovered a smuggling ring engaged in carrying Russian uranium to Poland . |
| 3 | On Nov. 18 Libya announced that it had set up a judicial inquiry to investigate the allegations . |
| 4 | On Feb. 29 Sweden announced that it had rejected a Libyan request made earlier in February via UN officials for the two Libyans , Abdel Baset Ali Mohammed al-Megrahi and al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah , to be tried in Sweden . |
| 5 | More than one witness recalled that it gained height steadily after being launched on several occasions in 1848 , and Stringfellow himself certainly considered that he had demonstrated with it the possibility of powered flight . |
| 6 | Although a trial judge might exclude evidence on the ground of fairness under s 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 , the fact that Parliament had incorporated the provisions of s 2(8) into the 1987 Act suggested that it had not felt that the power under the 1984 Act was sufficient to protect a person from being compelled to give evidence . |
| 7 | One marcher thought that it had been deliberately chosen to be provocative ; others suggested that it was simply the most direct route . |
| 8 | One interviewer wrote that it sounds like it 's been squatted in by thirteen separate Puerto Rican junkie families with tubercular in-laws and half a dozen barking dogs . |
| 9 | One participant argued that it had potential , but that that potential was not being used to the full . |
| 10 | On June 28 Treuhand announced that it had taken control of PDS landed property , and frozen all its bank accounts , restricting the party 's freedom to spend money from those accounts without Treuhand permission . |
| 11 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 12 | I never felt happy with it , and on two occasions found that it had worked its way down my arm and was loose around my wrist . |
| 13 | On June 20 China confirmed that it had supplied short-range tactical missiles to Pakistan . |
| 14 | In March 1988 Glencar announced that it had found deposits of gold , estimating the reserves at £300 million . |