Example sentences of "[prep] it [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chain wound its way round various wheels and cogs and at the end of it hung a large bucket . |
| 2 | The knowledge of it caused a strange mixture of pride and jealousy , love and hatred , which troubled him and even now made him stay his hand before announcing his decision . |
| 3 | De Gaulle had clearly created this confrontation , but it would be misleading to suggest that his courting of it represented a fundamental change in direction , either in ideology or method . |
| 4 | A street lamp threw faint light and out of it came a young woman . |
| 5 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 6 | And the worrying thing is it all starts in the margin like it had a through school . |
| 7 | Yet , obvious a performance though it was , behind it lay a real anguish and he knew it , and knew he could n't help it . |
| 8 | The tracks it left behind it bisected a faded trail of bootprints . |
| 9 | With it came a new sound — deep and frightening . |
| 10 | This objective was indeed achieved , but with it came a spectacular collapse in crude prices , which lasted from 1985 into the following year , when there were calls from the Gulf states for Britain to cut its North Sea output ‘ as part of a global effort between OPEC and non-OPEC exporters to restabilize the world oil market ’ . |
| 11 | With it came a sudden clarity of atmosphere , so that the trees and haystacks stood out in high relief , and the distant hills seemed to come nearer now that their outline was sharply etched on the horizon . |
| 12 | To the French he was a great innovator , an artist who brought a startling lightness to the execution of his pictures , and with it introduced a fresh breeze of English naturalism into French landscape painting . |
| 13 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 14 | When Stox went under it became a laughing stock . |
| 15 | From it sprang a beautiful rose-bush — which blossomed with black flowers . |
| 16 | From it emerged a black policeman , who left his white and clearly superior colleague sitting in the car . |
| 17 | Maryland was organized as a late and formal version of the feudal system , the Virginian way of life was always expected to reflect some memories of the heirs of the Elizabethan gentlemen and seadogs who had launched it , and Massachusetts and the other New England colonies that emerged from it retained a moral earnestness that sometimes survived the loss of the faith that had initially inspired the earnestness . |
| 18 | A large white bed dominated the room , and within it lay a porcelain-pale figure , propped up by banks of pillows , its shadowy eyes wide open . |
| 19 | In it sat a tiny beetle wearing goggles . |
| 20 | Her perfume immediately overpowered the tobacco fumes , her coat was of pale chamois leather and the silk scarf knotted over it bore a conspicuous signature . |
| 21 | But the build-up to it had a familiar ring about it for Dave . |
| 22 | An oval mirror , pock-marked and fly-stained , was set in the top of this extravagant and monstrous contraption and next to it stood a hollow elephant 's foot mounted on a wooden base . |
| 23 | Next to it squatted a young girl about fifteen or sixteen years old . |
| 24 | On it lay a cellophaned wallet of Guyland press handouts — this was where I 'd scribbled his number . |
| 25 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 26 | Initially his management of this crisis had met with high levels of popular approval , but as the conflict dragged on it became a damaging symbol of American weakness and presidential ineptitude with polls clearly revealing the public 's dissatisfaction with Carter 's performance . |
| 27 | After making unsignalled turns and abrupt lane changes through Chevy Chase , and Bethesda , she blasted to a highly illegal speed south on the Beltway , ducked off it rejoined a few miles along and finally came down to a leisurely cruise through the Virginia countryside . |