Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | nice try Gary but it did n't work |
| 2 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 3 | Shevers , who had already dropped the name Hawk 72 for the new aircraft , opting instead for ‘ Liberty ’ , says he is concerned that Textron , which already produces engines for light aircraft , may decide that resumption of single-engined aircraft production does not represent such an increase in its product liability exposure as it did for Cessna 's former parent General Dynamics . |
| 4 | The employees at Binns on High Row volunteered for the yearlong course after it came up in the company 's suggestion scheme . |
| 5 | Having worked for the influential retailer Woodhouse since it opened in 1975 , Guy Tolson is well-placed to analyse the ebb and flow of trends in fashionable menswear . |
| 6 | It was black and scalding with a kick like a Galloway bulls and it spread like fire through my tired frame . |
| 7 | ABSEILING 130ft from maltings at Bury St Edmunds is not everyone 's ideal Saturday afternoon pastime but it suited our daring duo from the maltings , and from Export . |
| 8 | When Uncle Vernon was a boy a Catholic had let off a firework in the path of the brewery dray-horse and it had lumbered sideways , the streamers of orange paper fluttering from its bridle rein and drifting to the kerb . |
| 9 | John wound up the toy car so it went . |
| 10 | *John wound up the toy car because it went . |
| 11 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 12 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
| 13 | The Vodafone Ltd arm of Vodafone Group Plc says gross new connections for its British cellular telephone network for the first quarter of 1993 totalled 92,775 ; net new connections totalled 43,911 , and at the end of the quarter , Vodafone had more than 838,000 subscribers connected to its cellular network , 85,000 of them on the new LowCall tariff that it launched in October . |
| 14 | The process , which a highly skilled operator controls through a keyboard , itself caused a revolution in the printing industry when it appeared in the 1890s , putting many hand composers out of a job . |
| 15 | She looked different with her hair cut and it made them feel shy . |
| 16 | She goes when she was born either he was chewing some chewing gum and it fell out and it went ins caught in your mum 's prinny and it glued it together See you tomorrow dudes . |
| 17 | We were laughing at the Sun this morning , had a picture of Neil Kinnock 's head in the light bulb and it said , could the last person out of Britain please turn the light off after them . |
| 18 | Dougal was halfway back to the car park before it occurred to him that flight was not necessarily the wisest course of action . |
| 19 | Richmond Town Council believes The Fosse should be a long stay car park because it used by day trippers who spend their day at the riverside . |
| 20 | The sun glinted on the silver scales as it struggled in vain . |
| 21 | The brass work was cast in the brass foundry , and from there it was sent to the brass finishing shop for machining and cleaning up , afterwards traversing the plating department where it received either venetian bronze , oxidised silver or plain brass lacquer finish , next passing to position No 3 for fixing in the carriage . |
| 22 | Ultimately , a figure of £2,500 per episode was fixed by the planners , a result which had as much effect on the script side as it did on the production values . |
| 23 | Mr Lawes and Mr Whatling said they had signed a partnership deal once it became clear how important the find was . |
| 24 | Another cherry , the double pink Kiku-shidare Sakura , no longer weeps gracefully over the terrace pond as it did for more than 20 years . |
| 25 | Many a time had Preston 's youthful slumbers been disturbed by the sound of the deluge from Nan 's bedroom window as it hit the corrugated iron roof of their garden shed and the wild feline howls as their coitus was so balefully interrupted . |
| 26 | I have only seen one badger in the so-called ‘ wild ’ , caught in the beam of car headlights as it dashed across a small country road in Cornwall . |
| 27 | It is clearly related to the Horta figure work although it came a few months later , and it shows the same intensive analysis of the nature of solid forms . |
| 28 | THE South West Thames regional health authority requested the army be drafted in for ambulance work when it became clear the police could not cope , according to ambulance mangement . |
| 29 | The move follows the announcement in July by the International Stock Exchange that it intended to set up a clearing house to handle existing and projected settlement services in London . |
| 30 | The only sounds were his footsteps on the stairs , the slamming of her front door followed by the noise of his car engine as it roared away from her flat . |