Example sentences of "a [noun] it [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ben is described variously as a ‘ merchant 's clerk ’ and as an ‘ outrider ’ , itself a dialect term used extensively in Somerset and elsewhere to describe a tradesman 's travelling agent — a meaning it still carried in New Zealand , for example , well into the 20th century . |
| 2 | As a body it naturally reflected the dominant interests in society , though it was prone to being strongly buffeted by conflicts of interest in matters of land , property and amenity . |
| 3 | It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her . |
| 4 | The management ref refused to talk all the time and after a while it just got depressing , the fact that nothing seemed to be happening . |
| 5 | SGI was criticised at the time for the price it was willing to pay , a price it later trimmed . |
| 6 | The winner 's conker was then a oner , when it had disposed of two it became a twoer , but if it should then beat a threeer it then became a fiver . |
| 7 | Last time , Congress got just six seats out of 42 in a state it once claimed as its almost exclusive territory . |
| 8 | Those who were seriously engaged in geology or biology could not allow such reasoning either , although in a sense it only represented the idea that science can not deal with origins , carried to an extreme . |
| 9 | I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub . |
| 10 | As the season drew to a close it actively encouraged early retirement and voluntary redundancy amongst its older or less productive workers and filled the resulting vacancies with the most productive temporary workers . |
| 11 | India in those days ( round about 1963 ) was much in the air and I found that as a background it decidedly fired my imagination . |
| 12 | Political commentators noted that by aligning tactically with the LDP at this stage , Komeito anticipated holding the balance of power in the Lower House after the elections , a position it already enjoyed in the Upper House . |
| 13 | The applicant in the Fleet Street Casuals case was itself a representative of the interests of its members : as a company it really had no interest independent of that of its members ; but the issue of representative standing was not considered in that case . |
| 14 | For a time it probably controlled the Adriatic coast from Rijeka to the Neretva and extended inland to the Hungarian border north of Zagreb and to the Drina valley in the south , where it faced the Byzantine empire and the Serbian principality of Raška . |
| 15 | For a time it even had an international dimension . |