Example sentences of "[noun pl] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 2 | It was an intelligent , thought-provoking script , but in Whitaker 's eyes it just did not work . |
| 3 | Under both governances it somehow managed , in friendly or hostile fashion , to draw supplies of meat , poultry and other foodstuffs from the fertile riverside plain known as the Merse ( or Marsh ) , which with its moderate rainfall was from early times one of the most productive agricultural regions in the country . |
| 4 | When polluted rain was substituted by clean rain , the ‘ bleeding ’ of sulphate from the soil reduced 50 per cent but after 36 months it still continued at up to seven times the rate of input . |
| 5 | Now the next thing erm , on the same page was , having taken away the , th th the non fee earning elements it actually pushed , and I 'm looking at your revised sheet now |
| 6 | The succulent liberties it never had |
| 7 | Or else it 's the Croup , the Colic , the Beads it just swallowed or double |
| 8 | The Conservatives won 20 ( gained 6 , lost 9 ) ; Labour won 29 ( gained 10 , lost 4 ) ; the SLD won 17 ( gained 6 , lost 5 ) ; the SDP lost both seats it previously held ; independents won 4 ( gained 3 , lost 5 ) . |
| 9 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 10 | Over two or three days it suddenly became malign enough to seem a reflection of Bella 's casual slaughter of their lives , and at last he rose in revolt . |
| 11 | For most of them sex happens in the same places it always did . |
| 12 | Heterosexism was a theory that was increasingly attractive to lesbian and gay socialists , but in the mid-1980s it still carried little clout in the lesbian and gay communities as a whole . |
| 13 | In the first four years it nearly halved the PSBR , or borrowing requirement , from 5 per cent of GDP in 1978 — 9 to 2.7 per cent in 1982 — 3 and Britain had a markedly tighter fiscal stance than her Western European neighbours . |
| 14 | James and I continued to go out and have lovely times together , but after a couple of years it slowly began to dawn on me that I was expanding . |
| 15 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 16 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 17 | As it exercised no rights it also owned 1,100,000 shares following the issue . |
| 18 | ‘ In uncertain conditions it sometimes resulted in roads being gritted unnecessarily , and turning out the gritting teams costs £3,000 a time . |
| 19 | This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 . |
| 20 | Because much of Buick 's success is based on sales to the over-50s , its target customers will eventually be replaced by greying baby-boomers — the very customers it once steered away from . |
| 21 | Apart from these difficulties it soon became only too obvious that the drugs could be unexpectedly toxic . |
| 22 | When they staled in the yards it quickly froze . |
| 23 | In some ways it hardly seemed to exist ; in another way , it had almost brought about the death of all three . |
| 24 | This , and the fact that the Hayes Society tended to be a rather secretive body , lent it much mystique for a time , ensuring that the pronouncements it occasionally issued on professional matters were received as though hewn on tablets of stone . |
| 25 | When this logic was applied to the lower ranks of the armed forces it also carried the gloss that these men were less capable of intellectual control , being more animal and closer to nature . |
| 26 | I was n't sure if there or well there may be so whatever reasons it just went out the window . |
| 27 | While management attention was diverted into new projects it also missed obvious opportunities : the company took decades to figure out that it could sell work-wear as well as party dresses . |
| 28 | In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression . |
| 29 | But by the time we reached the foot of the fixed ropes it suddenly changed , with the wind dropping and the snow stopping . |
| 30 | But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish . |