Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pentagon said it knew of 59 dead and 66 wounded , and of 1,500 prisoners from the 6,000-strong Panamanian Defence Force . |
| 2 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 3 | The board said it regretted that Lord Hollick had informed the chairman that he could not support its statement of support for Mr Montgomery in full . |
| 4 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 5 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Vatican said it had accepted an unprecedented Chinese invitation to send a top official to Peking to attend a sports ceremony this weekend and meet government officials . |
| 7 | The ministry said it had only begun to take meat samples . |
| 8 | The ministry said it had requested the extradition of the assailants . |
| 9 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 10 | The DoE believed it had the decision to join the 30 per cent Club ‘ in the bag ’ and briefed journalists to that effect . |
| 11 | The DoE said it considered the road to be ‘ capable of carrying the existing and projected traffic volumes for the foreseeable future ’ . |
| 12 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 13 | We approached it cautiously , in case the cops had it staked out . |
| 14 | The association said it had no choice but to shoot hundreds more emaciated Merino sheep among a flock of 72,000 kept on land capable of sustaining only 17,000 sheep . |
| 15 | Supporting CCETSW 's anti-racist guidelines , the association said it deplored the actions of those ‘ seeking to destabilise the process . ’ |
| 16 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 17 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
| 18 | The CSO cautioned it regarded comparisons of the volume figures as distorted by the impact of the dock strike on August and September returns . |
| 19 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 20 | The agent said it had sold a commercial garage in Middlesbrough to a named company . |
| 21 | Jacobsen flew back to Washington for the ritual photocall with the president at the White House on 7 November and when reporters asked Reagan about the arms deal story the president said it had ‘ no foundation ’ . |
| 22 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 23 | Shook newspaper off and the wind sent it whirling into the railings of the park . |
| 24 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |
| 25 | The defendant contended it accrued when the works were completed , in which event the action is statute-barred . |
| 26 | As the pound slumped it fell below its ‘ effective ’ floor set by its relationship with the peseta but dealers say that the peseta constraint is no longer as important as it was once thought to be . |
| 27 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 28 | Profitable as the business was , the brothers knew it had a limited lifespan . |
| 29 | It is a matter of examining the contract to see whether the parties intended it to remain valid even if the goods were not in existence or had perished . |
| 30 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |