Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long it continued as a workhouse I know not , but records were kept up till 1795 . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it belonged to a child who was under rubble . |
| 3 | we have to get the give and take blend just right , so it sounded like a coffee ! |
| 4 | Michael Lee had arrived in Dublin barely four hours ago — he checked his watch again — but already it felt like a lifetime . |
| 5 | Partly it resulted from a preference in his subject-matter for concrete cultural and social detail over Adorno 's tendency towards abstraction of social process : for instance , he offered something like a phenomenology of the ‘ shocks ’ inherent in modern city life ; he discussed actual and potential production practices within modern media , derived from his enthusiasm for Brecht 's ‘ epic theatre ’ ; he focused less on the totalities of aesthetic form than on the fluidities of technique , the conditions of production , and the variable nature of reception . |
| 6 | Seconds later it burst into a ball of flame . |
| 7 | Some years later it appeared from a decision in the Chancery Division that the tolls had been unlawfully demanded and the plaintiff sued for their recovery . |
| 8 | Now it seemed like a relief to be talking , a novelty , a test of wit . |
| 9 | Now it sat upon a plinth of stone the height of two standing men which was at the concourse of the broad principal streets which radiated out from Kinsai like the spokes of a wheel . |
| 10 | Sometimes it was quantitatively inadequate , but more often it suffered from an excess of conflicting signs and signposts . |
| 11 | Well it seemed like a change from high-wire walking . |
| 12 | Well it looked like a wedding car cos there were bouquets in the back . |
| 13 | From here it looked like a toy village sparkling in the sun and on the green slopes there were sheep , a dog racing among them . |
| 14 | Eventually it blossomed into a garden centre . |
| 15 | Sometimes it felt like an anti-climax , and his friends did n't know what to do with him . |
| 16 | Unfortunately it resulted in a patent war , and finally by the mid-teens , about nineteen fifteen , erm the process died as a result of the rivalries of other companies . |
| 17 | And then it exploded into a riot . |
| 18 | Then it came to a contest between the government ( with reserves of less than $10 billion , on some estimates ) and the currency market ( with its turnover of $1 trillion a day ) . |
| 19 | She saw it for a second , then it went behind a wave , and came up again . |
| 20 | Yeah , but this has n't it sho , it , first put it up with no glass , so they put the glass in then it looked like a mirror |
| 21 | Then it crunched into a trench , hurting a workman , aged 44 , who was laying a TV cable . |
| 22 | Then it flew to a boulder , blinked its white eyelids , bobbed and curtsied , and whirred upstream . |
| 23 | Then it erupted in a shower of cold , bright stars , brilliant with a sharp , astonishing , searing pain . |
| 24 | The moon was making gallant attempts to shine : every now and then it peeped through a chink in the scurrying clouds , and turned the puddles into little lakes of quicksilver . |
| 25 | Instead it turned into a nightmare . |
| 26 | Yet it came as a surprise to find Albert Uderzo , the Parisian illustrator , is suave , sophisticated and softly spoken , a man whose idea of fun is racing one of his six Ferraris . |
| 27 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 28 | From 1974 onwards it evolved as a unit of account , first when its value was linked to a basket of currencies and then as the IMF denominated its growing balance of payments financing in terms of the SDR . |