Example sentences of "it [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 2 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 3 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 4 | A couple of hundred yards downstream it gushes out below a ceremonial arch into the Brigach . |
| 5 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 6 | We put a match to ours and it goes up with a rocket-like roar , heating the yurt in a flash . |
| 7 | Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report . |
| 8 | The stream , on its way to join the River Ure , has its origins on Abbotside Common and passes through the small hidden village of Cotterdale , a community unseen and unsuspected from the main road , the only access to it branching off as a gated strip of tarmac . |
| 9 | The small firm needling the big multinational may be only a nuisance for the time being , but if it latches on to a new and successful technology and makes all the right first-mover investments it may be tomorrow 's market leader . |
| 10 | Solid waste is different : unless it is burned or buried at sea , it lingers on as a visible souvenir . |
| 11 | And he admitted : ‘ If keepers make a mistake it stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 12 | It stands out like a sore thumb . |
| 13 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 14 | Surrounded by coconut groves , it looks out over a large , open-air swimming pool onto an excellent sandy beach and the sea beyond . |
| 15 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 16 | It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it , making neater analogies and finer distinctions . |
| 17 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 18 | It branched off opposite a small village , a satellite of Reggane , almost where I had begun walking . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 20 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 21 | It was n't difficult to imagine it wriggling out of a cigar-shaped object on Wimbledon Common . |
| 22 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 23 | It came up with a risky and controversial course of action : close the county 's ‘ surplus ’ long-stay residential homes and reinvest in specialist community-based services for elderly people . |
| 24 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 25 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 26 | It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood . |
| 27 | It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’ |
| 28 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 29 | If it ends up with a segregated system — then so be it ’ . |
| 30 | Change the social or physical conditions in which the animal is growing up and you may find it ends up with a different set of rules for learning . |