Example sentences of "[coord] it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
| 2 | Lack of an alternative summer team sport protected cricket between the wars and it benefited from a brief post-1945 resurgence in numbers , but then numbers fell so dramatically that by 1965 they stood at about a third of the post-1945 years . |
| 3 | He kicked one , and it disintegrated into a white powder . |
| 4 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 5 | Where , when you sub- contract some international work , at some stage you get something back that you checked and it looked like a right pig but . |
| 6 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 7 | Also , academic life had not exactly left me well-off and it seemed like a good idea to try to earn a slightly larger salary so that I would have something to put towards my eventual retirement . |
| 8 | The switchboard answered quickly and it seemed like a good omen . |
| 9 | In the meantime , my thirteenth birthday was coming up , and it seemed like a good time to revive my request for the perfect present : a bird of prey . |
| 10 | The picture could be executed by a company called Scanachrome in which I already had some interest and it seemed like a good opportunity to get involved with the process . |
| 11 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 12 | He blasted it and it went in a straight line from his foot to the top right hand corner . |
| 13 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 14 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 15 | A canal had been dug by French prisoners of war from what is now Dartmoor Prison , and it passed through a 2-mile-long tunnel to the hillside above the quay . |
| 16 | An inset was at one time created for Skelton , and it resulted in a considerable amount of building on the south side . |
| 17 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 18 | My room was over the back door and it squeaked like a murdered rat . |
| 19 | In particular , it proposed the ending of detention without trial as soon as was politically possible , and it condemned as a serious mistake the establishment of a ‘ special category ’ for convicted prisoners claiming political motivation . |
| 20 | At that time the party seemed to have many of the characteristics of a party which did not expect to win elections : it had changed its leadership only a few weeks before the general election was called , Lansbury having resigned and been replaced by Attlee on a temporary basis ; and it suffered from a good deal of internal factionalism , and found its major policy demand — collective security through the League of Nations — ‘ scooped ’ by Stanley Baldwin , the Prime Minister . |
| 21 | A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd never have guessed , ’ she quipped , and it ended in a raucous cough . |
| 23 | After two more attempts he tried the door ; it was unsecured and it opened into a little hall from which stairs led upwards . |
| 24 | And it turned to a great marsh . |
| 25 | Mrs , I think , suspected the latter and it showed in a permanent coldness to them thereafter . |
| 26 | It was beautifully coloured , and it flew in a familiar jerky manner . |
| 27 | But it lasted for a good seven or eight years after the war was finished . |
| 28 | She concedes , ‘ We are aware that a market for these Japanese artists does not yet exist , but it seemed like a good moment . |
| 29 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 30 | And the only bit of damp I 've got is in one corner of the house but it came from a blocked erm pipe . |