Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A force was assembled under John of Gaunt which was to sail for Brittany in May , but its departure was held up until July , and when it eventually set out it made for Calais instead of Brittany . |
| 2 | In fact it came into effect only in 1988 . |
| 3 | It existed in Rome even before the end of the monarchy . |
| 4 | The only problem was the London Paddington to Liverpool train did n't run from the expected start station , it started from Reading instead of from Paddington , so if you were expecting somebody on that train , well they may not have , may not have been on that one if they er were actually starting from Paddington , otherwise no problems on the buses . |
| 5 | It looked to Dot more like a skeleton in clothes than a father . |
| 6 | It is surely significant that when the government of newly independent Zimbabwe was seeking finance to buy out South African interests in the country 's newspapers and establishing a new framework within which its press , television and radio could operate , it went to Nigeria both for finance and for advice . |