Example sentences of "a [noun sg] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The economist John Maynard Keynes advocated just such an approach in the Thirties , arguing that during a recession it made sense because there were idle resources available . |
| 2 | Next week , Mr Irons and Sheriff Nicholson are to petition the Court of Session to reverse a decision it took last year , effectively removing them as Torrie trustees , and making the university the sole trustee of the collection . |
| 3 | He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge . |
| 4 | Apart from an inkstained blotter and a penstand it held a small wooden bookshelf containing the Shorter Oxford Dictionary , a dictionary of quotations , Roget 's Thesaurus and Fowler 's Modern English Usage . |
| 5 | He joined us from a Derbyshire side near his native Tibshelf and made his Southern League debut at Bristol Rovers oh 7 December — and what a debut it turned out to be ! |
| 6 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 7 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 8 | Wiltshire Social Services want to know how the Mail on Sunday obtained confidential information about the 14-year-old for a story it ran at the weekend . |
| 9 | ‘ You are no better than our readers , ’ he said , fixing me with a look it took me years to forget . |
| 10 | Can never wear a shirt it meant for a shirt underneath it . |
| 11 | ‘ And if it was a pay-off it did n't do him any good . ’ |
| 12 | The deficit , according to the Finance Ministry , represented 5 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) — a figure it believed acceptable to the IMF . |
| 13 | She was whirling higher and higher , her body finding for itself a rhythm it had never been taught , till unknowingly she cried his name aloud , unable to contain the feelings building to explosion point a second longer . |
| 14 | It was at a height of nearly 3,000 metres & the air outside was well below freezing , but the lava tunnel was in an area of recent activity , and as a result it boasted beautiful underfloor heating . |
| 15 | As a result it slipped into a loss of £1.33m in 1988 against a £1.71m taxable profit in 1987 . |
| 16 | Our survey of Japanese finance ( ‘ Downbeat ’ , December 8th ) included a table purporting to show Japanese banks ' BIS capital-adequacy ratios as at September 1990 , attributed to James Capel and from a study it made in October 1990 . |
| 17 | It sold out quickly and after a repressing it reached number four in the independent chart published in Melody Maker . |
| 18 | When the Scottish Institute employed Charlie Clark as its property manager eight years ago , after he left the army , it had no idea what a talent it had acquired . |
| 19 | Sir , — Contrary to your assertion ( see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 14 ) that ‘ When the Scottish Institute employed Charlie Clark … it had no idea what a talent it had acquired , ’ we certainly knew of Charlie 's pre-eminence as a piper . |
| 20 | What no one told the audience was that although the band 's instruments were apparently all wired up for sound , Shakatak was actually miming to a tape it had recorded in a Shepperton studio the night before . |
| 21 | If it needed a car it borrowed the Army 's one . |
| 22 | For a second it seemed that he would be unable to respond , but then he found his voice . |
| 23 | So for a second it seemed the most natural thing in the world when the ships airlock suddenly opened , and I stepped out of my cabin to see Sergia framed in the lock , with two male Ardakkeans behind her . |
| 24 | Just for a second it seemed to Polly that they met and lingered on hers . |
| 25 | For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his . |
| 26 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 27 | For a second it looked as if he might make a stab at it , but then he saw John Wakeham , looking a little crestfallen , coming out in front of him , while behind John Patten , Tony Newton , Michael Portillo and Sir Patrick Mayhew were about to swing through Downing Street gates . |
| 28 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 29 | Pretty deep there ; it 's a wonder it did n't slice the top of his head off . |
| 30 | The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament found in Cruise and Trident a stimulus it had not had since the early 1960s . |