Example sentences of "it [verb] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 It failed because it precipitated a managerial revolution in Courtaulds , which in turn led to the defeat of the bid and the rapid recovery of the company .
2 First , it failed because it did not benefit the poor as much as it did the middle classes .
3 And then it got that it blew over did n't it ?
4 ‘ Barnet 's barmy army ’ it read and it seemed an apt description of an outfit that are n't Even Barry Fry , the manager whose latest sacking and return enlivened another crazy week at Underhill , admits that the club , which beat Rochdale 2-0 on Saturday , is a laughing stock .
5 Yesterday it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m .
6 Last week it announced that it had signed a letter of intent to sell its Ross Technology Inc subsidiary , repository of all its Sparc work , to Fujitsu Ltd for $23m .
7 The first details of the annexation were broadcast by the PFKG on Aug. 8 when it announced that it had asked Iraq to approve a " complete full unity merger between Kuwait and Iraq , so that Saddam Hussein will be our leader " .
8 After a comparative lull in activity in early 1989 [ see p. 37587 ] the Basque separatist organization Euskadi ta Askatasuna ( ETA — Basque Homeland and Liberty ) stepped up its campaign of violence when on Aug. 13 , 1990 , it announced that it had planted bombs , scheduled to explode within the next fortnight , on three railway lines out of Madrid .
9 It creaked as it swung open .
10 Because we felt that the application for mining , the timing would be picked by the companies , there would be immense pressure on the people to change their position because at that stage it would be out in the open that there was money there and that it would be in the government 's hands and we felt we would lose that so what we had to do was get it stopped before it got to that stage ’ .
11 And it stopped when it hit something .
12 He 'd forgotten about the way it flickered before it came on properly and made a noise .
13 The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule .
14 As he drew near they heard the sickening crack of the rod striking flesh ; once , twice they heard it fall but it brought no anguished shout of pain in response .
15 Cap Gemini Sogeti SA said yesterday that it was making the offer for the remaining 28.8% of London W-based software and computer services company Hoskyns Group Plc as it promised when it bought its majority stake from GEC Siemens Plc .
16 How would it know that it had to lose weight ?
17 It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses .
18 Though the three major Allies — the United States , the Soviet Union , and Great Britain — were willing to concede this parity on occasion , the very act of conceding it demonstrated that it did not in reality exist .
19 When Xerox first embarked on benchmarking it helped that it had a Japanese partner , Fuji Xerox , that it could look to for information about Japanese practices .
20 What did it matter if it stopped her from sleeping ?
21 We had it scanned and it came to light the morning after the race .
22 Storage Technology Corp declined to comment on market rumours that its Iceberg high-speed disk array is about to be completed : it noted that it had made no new statements on Iceberg 's progress since last November when it said that beta site testing will extend into the second half of the current year .
23 It added that it rejected the Cairo " fait accompli " and would maintain its right " to safeguard this institution and its employees from loss " .
24 It added that it expected Denmark 's gross domestic product to grow by 2.25 per cent in 1992 , up from 2 per cent in 1991 .
25 It came and it went .
26 It whitened as it climbed the sky , casting a long path of broken moonlight across the river .
27 Why did it occur when it did ?
28 She shrugged it off and left it lying where it fell , in a heap at the bottom of the stairs .
29 . And this is why I choose the cutters because it was mechanically and er I I was quite with it , I was able to sort of get it going if it stopped , one road or another .
30 It declared that it understood the scope of the Letters of Request which it would not execute as including Letters of Request which require a person
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