Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The light shining through her roughly heaped haycock of hair made it blaze so you might have thought you could warm your hands at it . |
| 2 | The Ministry of Defence denied it had been hit in a missile exercise . |
| 3 | The Ministry of Agriculture said it believed hemp , which can grow as high as 15ft , would be a minority crop and would not become a common feature of Britain 's rural landscape . |
| 4 | The Department of Agriculture said it had no comment to make because the closure was a private decision by the abattoir owners . |
| 5 | Tonight the Ministry of Agriculture said it sympathised with the bee keepers , but compensation would n't be paid . |
| 6 | The record of the Alliance in power was one of pragmatism , perhaps not very different from that of labour had it retained control . |
| 7 | What kind of circulation did it have ? |
| 8 | What sort of effect did it have on you that kind of directness ? |
| 9 | This loss of influence made it fear the nationalists more . |
| 10 | She told the council 's cemeteries and crematorium consultative committee she was a regular visitor and the items being placed in the chapel of remembrance made it look like a shop display . |
| 11 | Announcing its decision , the Department of Environment said it had responded to three main criticisms : i ) the register would have listed all potential , not necessarily actual , contaminated sites , since it included all locations where specified industries had been sited ; ii ) sites would not be removed from the register , even if after clean-up ; iii ) there was no specific provision for determining who should bear the liability , and the costs , of the clean-up . |
| 12 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 13 | It tried to fasten on innocuous bits of bark and leaf , but the scourge of curiosity forced it to leave them behind . |
| 14 | This week the Department of Energy said it believed that sufficient data would be available from other sources to make Super-SARA unnecessary . |