Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board revealed it had established a sub-committee ‘ to progress the recruitment of a group chief executive from outside the Barclays Group ’ . |
| 2 | The board said it regretted that Lord Hollick had informed the chairman that he could not support its statement of support for Mr Montgomery in full . |
| 3 | But his concentration was poor these days : he could hardly keep his mind on anything for more than a moment … and even when he heard what the Padre said it made no sense … " the Editor of The Times as wise as God Himself ! " |
| 4 | The accent made it sound a strange new game . |
| 5 | The ministry said it had only begun to take meat samples . |
| 6 | The ministry said it had requested the extradition of the assailants . |
| 7 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 8 | The association said it had no choice but to shoot hundreds more emaciated Merino sheep among a flock of 72,000 kept on land capable of sustaining only 17,000 sheep . |
| 9 | Supporting CCETSW 's anti-racist guidelines , the association said it deplored the actions of those ‘ seeking to destabilise the process . ’ |
| 10 | At the end of May 1792 the College decided it had no further occasion for the service of Blaine , who had been assisting Vial as demonstrator in anatomy . |
| 11 | The beater said it had happened years ago in a quarrying accident . |
| 12 | The slam of the door and its subsequent splitting as the axe hit it merged into one sound . |
| 13 | The agent said it had sold a commercial garage in Middlesbrough to a named company . |
| 14 | Jacobsen flew back to Washington for the ritual photocall with the president at the White House on 7 November and when reporters asked Reagan about the arms deal story the president said it had ‘ no foundation ’ . |
| 15 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 16 | Shook newspaper off and the wind sent it whirling into the railings of the park . |
| 17 | The independence of the pro-nuclear experts having been challenged , the DUC decided it needed to mobilize outside expertise to back up its position . |
| 18 | The defendant contended it accrued when the works were completed , in which event the action is statute-barred . |
| 19 | As the pound slumped it fell below its ‘ effective ’ floor set by its relationship with the peseta but dealers say that the peseta constraint is no longer as important as it was once thought to be . |
| 20 | Over the years Solihull has perfected the art of stepping-stone marketing — improving models just when the opposition thought it had caught up . |
| 21 | The snail 's pace of the boat made it seem like an endless expedition into the interior . |
| 22 | Maria had become Mary because the management thought it sounded more Irish . |
| 23 | The sun made it warm enough to sit outside and , although swimming in the pool was out of the question so early in the year , Jenna managed to get an even golden tan . |
| 24 | When the coach arrived it took some time to organise the teams . |
| 25 | The committee said it had no reason to doubt Mr Gummer was out of pocket and it accepted there was no intent on his part to conceal the work . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , at Verdun when the battle began it had been outmatched — in numbers alone — by nearly five to one . |
| 27 | The judge said it had sunk below a sensible level . |
| 28 | The judge left it to counsel to submit suggestions for appropriate relief for the limited infringement of copyright . |
| 29 | The judge concluded it did not . |
| 30 | The boy said it had began with affectionate cuddling but escalated into sexual acts . |