Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Hill said it refuses to accept wagers on the state of royal marriages and has often turned down bets on a Charles and Diana split . |
| 2 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 3 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
| 4 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 5 | Only when it was made into a glitzy film by Steven Spielberg did it become widely read and talked about outside feminist circles . |
| 6 | ‘ It was changed from the original Florizel Street because Agnes the tea lady thought it sounded like disinfectant , ’ said Warren . |
| 7 | The issue erupted again when asbestos spilled in the factory over the first weekend in June and Raybestos management announced it had closed down that section of the factory . |
| 8 | She was not even able to read : though the family possessed an extensive library , Dona Marguerita had it kept locked and the key lodged with Padre Jorge , who was prepared to issue devotional books only , and that grudgingly . |
| 9 | Dennis Skinner said it appeared that the Government ‘ was engaged in undercover activity ’ . |
| 10 | A labour shortage forced it to depend on migrant labour , principally from Italy and France . |
| 11 | Continued criticism of LDDC policy led it to introduce a belated social housing initiative in 1986 aimed at providing new and refurbished housing for rent and shared ownership . |
| 12 | By the second last only Captain John looked dangerous , and at the final fence Bregawn had it sewn up , scampering up the hill to win by five lengths . |
| 13 | Referee David Axcell passed it fit an hour before kick-off after deciding the mud was no worse than on his hometown beach at Southend . |
| 14 | The largest of them , Krakatoa , was known to be about nine kilometres across from north to south and the British Admiralty charts showed it to consist of several volcanic cones arranged roughly in a line . |
| 15 | AMA social services committee chairman Toby Harris said it confirmed the DoH viewed the changes through rose-tinted spectacles . |
| 16 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 17 | Sections of the barrier were brought to the inquest and forensic scientist David Price said it had n't been welded together properly . |
| 18 | Those who are inclined towards reform reversal , place much more weight on the way the long dominance of the Conservative LDP party allowed it to pack the Supreme Court with its own nominees , so that the independence of the Judiciary is a myth . |
| 19 | Marcus Browning got it to send Hereford on the way to an easy win over Halifax Town . |
| 20 | For the purpose of his decision in Re Sigsworth , the trial judge assumed it to have been proved that the deceased , Mary Ann Sigsworth , had been murdered by her son ; and the question was whether the son was entitled to her estate as ‘ issue ’ under the Act . |
| 21 | He seems to have found it more difficult to extrapolate remote , romantic adventures from the complex , changing world of the 1920s and after than Anthony Hope found it to transport a late-Victorian man-about-town to a small Central European kingdom . |
| 22 | North Korea said it rejected the resolution , and would regard sanctions as a declaration of war . |
| 23 | Dr McGarry claimed it had been in response to the earlier statement and he welcomed the decision . |
| 24 | Judging by the ammonia levels our test kit recorded it had become fully charges on its surface in around six weeks . |
| 25 | She snatched up the fern from the window sill and for a second Blanche expected it to soar through the air and sow its parched soil across the carpet . |
| 26 | But as soon as the fact came to light , Lord 's agent Giles Gordon made it known to all the nine publishers to whom an outline had been submitted , some of whom did consequently withdraw bids . |
| 27 | Aunt Lou said it sounded very nice but to make sure the bed was aired because old places were often damp . |
| 28 | Cllr Johnston said it took the city solicitor 's department two hours to find the application forms , after he had asked why interviews had not been held . |
| 29 | A spokesman for IBM France said it had already earmarked 1,500 job cuts for 1993 through voluntary redundancies , but did not rule out further measures if the market deteriorated . |
| 30 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |