Example sentences of "[verb] it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After entering I found it came from a little sister of those drowned Children , that was singing to a bundle of clouts , rudely put together to look like a Doll , which she held in her arms . |
| 2 | I found it preoccupied by a little company of artists , either professional or amateur , who made use of the rainy day by camping in the coach-house to sketch from its shelter a fine group of trees , with some good foreground rock and bracken , all within a stone-throw of the cottage . |
| 3 | Some Berliners want it preserved as a historic site , others fear that it could become the focus for neo-fascist demonstrators . |
| 4 | Home po 2 monitoring was undertaken in 134 patients ; in the 120 patients who have discontinued it lasted for a median duration of 5.5 months ( range 0.3–17.5 ) . |
| 5 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 6 | Her hands grasped his back , and she could feel it wet with a thin film of perspiration . |
| 7 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
| 8 | In so acting it acted for a dependent reason , for the assumption is that individuals have reason to wish for a convention and hence reason to take action to help form one . |
| 9 | ‘ And you 're saying it began with a Big Bang ? ’ |
| 10 | It was no good my saying it sounded like a circumscribed area of peritonitis because I did n't know what was behind it |
| 11 | It is an area I do not know and the reason for choosing it came from a close friend who has put up with the knowledge of my obsession for many years now and still remains the closest of friends . |
| 12 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |
| 13 | Legend relates that while he was living in the mountains he brewed a hypnotic drink , and after drinking it fell into a deep sleep and dreamed strange dreams . |
| 14 | She sucked again from the tea-bulb , feeling its plastic smoothness dent as it emptied , knowing it came from a floating colony like she did but not knowing why it should be used on a steady-gravity planet like Mars . |
| 15 | I remembered what he 'd told Mavis and me about the book and more than ever I thought it sounded like a good idea — the story of a man rationalizing his own lack of self-belief … |
| 16 | I thought it sounded like a good idea as it would give me a taster . |
| 17 | I thought it sounded like a faulty needle but she said ‘ I 've changed I do n't know how many , all on the ribber bed , so I do n't think it 's that . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The price of a common press was only about one-tenth of the cost of the 1,000 kg of type that kept it occupied in a busy shop … so that the master could afford to own more presses than he would normally need . ’ |
| 19 | Secondly , there 's no reason to suppose it happened in a small population . |
| 20 | The previous owner tells me he thinks it came from a 1976 vehicle but the distributor and starter motor are dated 1972 , 1971 . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to criticise the officials and we have to abide by what they say , but from where we were sitting it looked like a strange decision . ’ |
| 22 | 2 Make a hay infusion ( Chapter 5 ) and leave it uncovered on a shady window-sill for several weeks , topping it up with cooled , boiled water when necessary . |
| 23 | Before the 17C there were two statues on the bridge , one of the Crucifixion , which Elizabeth of Bohemia ( the Winter Queen ) foolishly insisted should be torn down as she said it looked like a naked bather , and the other of the moderate Hussite king , George Poděbrady . |
| 24 | A CHEMICAL firm was fined £50,000 yesterday after people nearby in Houston , Texas , said it smelt like a thousand dirty socks in a gym . |
| 25 | After seeing his 1853 bill side-tracked by a Royal Commission , Lord St Leonards was moving the second reading of another debtor and creditor bill in the House of Lords in 1859 , but once again many of their lordships found it all too complicated , and wanted it examined by a select committee . |
| 26 | See it installed in a public place and then bow out . |
| 27 | As I neared it changed to a shrill triple ‘ peep-peep-peep ’ . |