Example sentences of "it [vb past] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the first two weeks of the campaign almost twothirds of our panel cited unemployment as the ‘ main issue ’ that should be discussed but it got little coverage on television news . |
| 2 | It 's grown on a , a north facing wall so bit , bit more now I think if it got more sun . |
| 3 | And the press did come down , I mean it got some coverage . |
| 4 | Why it got this name I 've no idea , as the so called ‘ bees ’ , looking rather like the cereal Sugar Puffs , were reputed to be an Australian fungus with yeast-like properties . |
| 5 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 6 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 7 | This treaty empowered France to exercise certain sovereign powers on behalf of Morocco , provided it respected all treaty obligations to which Morocco had been subject before the formation of the Protectorate . |
| 8 | So of course I told him about , you see we , we 'd lowered the level of the loch at the , took four feet of it , you see and it revealed this thing in the loch . |
| 9 | It affirmed that provision by LEAs of education for under-fives was discretionary not compulsory . |
| 10 | It passed this information on in a terrible hushed whine that seemed to creep in and fill the head . |
| 11 | Twenty-four hours , the way her luck ran when it concerned this man . |
| 12 | Additionally , it read all cable traffic entering and leaving Britain . |
| 13 | The CEGB disclosed the escalation in nuclear costs as it announced that operating profits are £603 million lower than expected at £355 million . |
| 14 | It announced this week that it was adding a top rate of 12.5 p.c. to its new Premier Fix account . |
| 15 | But having had some estimates for that , it became inappropriate to , it became more cost effective to replace the entire pipe with a wider diameter pipe . |
| 16 | It recommended that school leavers aged 14 to 16 should attend ‘ continuation ’ schools for the equivalent of a day a week ( this was never implemented ) . |
| 17 | Proctor & gamble and Unilever , the two giants of the detergent industry , were guilty of this practice , and it recommended that advertising be reduced and product prices cut . |
| 18 | It recommended that Section 2 be replaced by a new Act that would define more narrowly the information that was to be protected ; restricted categories would cover confidential material about defence , foreign affairs and currency reserves , information concerning law enforcement and information provided for the government by an individual or private concern . |
| 19 | Last month Rainbow Warrior II was seized by the French navy as it led another protest to the atoll . |
| 20 | The house was solidly built , however , so it withstood this neglect . |
| 21 | Although her initiative represented a reversal of her previous stance , it produced little progress [ see p. 37716 ] . |
| 22 | Consequently , it produced more smoke than flames and Ridley cried out in pain . |
| 23 | It produced more tension and more time away from my family . ’ |
| 24 | He then began adding back one food per day and when he included instant coffee it produced another bout of severe depression . |
| 25 | It was all Isa could do to persuade Wilson to let some light in and dry her tears and tell her what ailed her ; and when she did so , it made little sense . |
| 26 | It never came close to winning an election anywhere and , despite the fears of Harry Pollitt , the Communist leader , it made little impact in London dockland around Wapping . |
| 27 | Even though James V had brought artillery with him to pound the walls , it made little impression , and in the end the besiegers ran out of gunpowder . |
| 28 | The more mischievous may suggest that , as an exercise in the once-discredited art of nationalisation , it was a huge success ; but as an attempt to apply market forces to public services it made little difference . |
| 29 | It made little difference . |
| 30 | It made little difference if a dreadful rash despoiled both little faces . |