Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said it tried to kill the three Roman Catholic taxi drivers . |
| 2 | It was one of those pictures that went totally against the grain of everything that the movie industry believed it stood for . |
| 3 | ‘ It was changed from the original Florizel Street because Agnes the tea lady thought it sounded like disinfectant , ’ said Warren . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A labour shortage forced it to depend on migrant labour , principally from Italy and France . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Judging by the ammonia levels our test kit recorded it had become fully charges on its surface in around six weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had tried this myself and knew it was not nearly as simple as the village boys made it seem . |
| 14 | Formed nationally in 1900 it had played no role in pioneering local labour representation ; not until the early interwar years did it emerge with quite remarkable rapidity as the dominant political force in West Ham . |
| 15 | The Salvation Army said it acknowledged with gratitude the faithful and caring service of the staff over the years . |
| 16 | In a statement tonight , Kent Messenger Group Newspapers said it had been working to produce a guide to the rail link . |
| 17 | By the early 1970s , however , the situation looked more favourable ; the reorganization of teacher education following the 1972 White Paper and the run-down of initial teacher training made it seem feasible to redeploy resources to raise the quality of the teaching force in further education . |
| 18 | The evil wind that bombed Manhattan 's World Trade Center nevertheless blew some good to the disaster recovery specialists : SunGard Data Systems Inc says it has been contacted by four subscriber companies seeking disaster recovery services following the blast — two in Four World Trade Center , one in Two World Trade Center and one in One World Trade Center ; and Comdisco Inc said it is providing disaster recovery services to three financial services companies hit by the blast , while IBM Corp 's disaster recovery unit said it had been in touch with ‘ a lot ’ of its customers , but that so far none of its customers had had to declare their workplaces to be disaster areas . |
| 19 | A spokeswoman for the employment benefit adjudication office said it had received a file on the subject , which was under consideration . |
| 20 | The illusion of success was maintained only because the group 's high share price enabled it to buy companies on the cheap and so keep pushing up total profits and earnings per share . |
| 21 | His wife Anna had it valued after he died aged 85 earlier this year . |
| 22 | In its report , the pollution inspectorate said it had received 80,000 responses — 77 per cent of which opposed approval of the plant — but found " no points of substance " to cause it to reconsider the terms of its draft licence for the plant . |
| 23 | The SDLP and Sinn Fein have both accepted invitations for discussions , while the Alliance Party said it had not yet received any formal communication about the visit . |
| 24 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had decided against referring the sentence to the Attorney General . |
| 26 | A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed it had decided against referring the sentence to the Attorney General . |
| 27 | As the problem of insider trading increased it became increasingly evident that s.16 was insufficient . |
| 28 | Last week Morocco claimed it had killed or wounded 80 Polisario guerrillas and had lost 14 soldiers , including a colonel , when Polisario attacked its defences near the Mauritanian border . |
| 29 | Nowhere in the above description of manager training did it explain how best to carry the role of mediator . |
| 30 | When the surviving Romanovs asked for the house where the Tsar was killed to be turned into a museum , Yeltsin and his Politburo colleagues had it demolished . |