Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only ‘ clean ’ greyhound in the race , run at Canterbury this month , was the 5–2 favourite and it finished last . |
| 2 | Liza Alther 's bestselling novel Kinflicks was rejected at least fifty times before it found a home , but when it did it earned her enough money to enable her to devote herself full-time to writing . |
| 3 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 4 | She added : ‘ Some of this graffiti appeared within 30 minutes after it had been cleaned . ’ |
| 5 | The low vaulted roof stretched for some forty feet until it met the blank wall at the far end . |
| 6 | ONE HUNDRED and forty years after it vanished from Windsor Castle in mysterious circumstances , a pornographic drawing of an hermaphrodite angel by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in Germany . |
| 7 | FIGHTER COLLECTION flew their P-38 Lightning back to Duxford from Lydd on Monday September 28 , 22 days after it came to grief in a belly landing at Lydd Airport , en route to the Shepway Seafront Airshow on September 6 ( FP October , p6 ) . |
| 8 | While other European Community countries are increasingly aware of the vulnerability of land , however , Britain 's pioneering national field-by-field soil survey remains incomplete , 53 years after it began . |
| 9 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 10 | In July , a US warship in the Pacific warned an Australian airliner carrying 300 passengers that it faced ‘ hostile action . ’ |
| 11 | Rare Bear had melted the piston in the No 2 cylinder and it looked like the rod in the No 1 cylinder had bent , tilting the entire jug about four or five degrees . |
| 12 | ‘ It was all over in 45 minutes but it seemed an eternity , ’ said Colin . |
| 13 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 14 | Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support . |
| 15 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |
| 16 | A man who allowed a greyhound to suffer for six weeks after it broke its leg has been banned from keeping dogs for three years . |
| 17 | This means that , should the project have a successful outcome , there is a 0.9 chance that the additional research supported this outcome and 0.1 chance that it did not . |
| 18 | so , I mean , one school turned out to be an old factory and it was of six floors and it had one of these like industrial lifts , you know , the open caged lifts |
| 19 | Grundy rescued it for the Channel 10 network after it had proved a massive flop on rival Channel 7 . |
| 20 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 21 | The search spanned three continents but it uncovered a pathetic bounty . |
| 22 | ‘ I say them two or three times and it became more obvious each time I say them that they had a real understanding of what it was they were trying to do musically . |
| 23 | More than three hours after it began , the German barrage was still going full blast . |
| 24 | HAVOC : This tree wrecked three cars when it fell on London 's Victoria Embankment |
| 25 | Chased by police vehicles and a helicopter it rammed three cars as it careered down the wrong side of city centre roads . |
| 26 | In mid-March LVMH reduced its debts by selling part of those businesses , the Lanson brand , only three months after it had bought it . |
| 27 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 28 | The rock was in just three pieces when it arrived and needed to be hammered into the correct sizes for the set-up . |
| 29 | That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 . |
| 30 | ‘ Samantha and Leanne were on heart monitors for about three days after it happened . |