Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for such vituperation and the violence it provoked the law could not punish him , though it tried to do so on a number of occasions . |
| 2 | But I 'm , but I 'm sure it 'd got up to a hundred and something pounds . |
| 3 | For three whole days she 'd blanked out the memory of that kiss they 'd shared , but now it came flooding back with a vengeance , hot and strong and so seductively real that she could have wept for shame . |
| 4 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 6 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 7 | It seemed to ring out for a long time . |
| 8 | It began counting down from a starting position of 30:00 . |
| 9 | His red Renault 9 , which he bought just the week before , was seen by truck driver Mr Burrige to indicate as it slowed to turn right from a central refuge . |
| 10 | It started coming back after a weekend seeing Darren . |
| 11 | Equally , if it decided to push ahead against a company , but withdrew in the face of firm resistance from the directors , word would soon get about that it was a pushover . |
| 12 | Yep , we managed to get in alright , pretty decent seats as well , even though it meant missing out on a few pints and getting there at 1o'clock . |
| 13 | I was surprised , for I had lost all count of time and had felt it had gone on for a week . |
| 14 | It had gone off in a hotel in Leinster Place and would always in future be known as the ‘ Bayswater Bomb ’ . |
| 15 | One head of department thought that it had increased marginally as a result of being more involved in decision-making , but this was less important to him than teaching . |
| 16 | Most countries tax multinationals on an ‘ arm 's length ’ basis , calculating the profits that the firm earned within their borders as if it had done so through a stand-alone business , operating at arm 's length from the parent firm . |
| 17 | Like George Habash 's PFLP , from which it had broken away in a brutal revolutionary schism , it was opposed to Arafat 's gun-and-olive-branch approach towards Israel and therefore outside Arafat 's control . |
| 18 | Formed in May 1983 and formally launched that August , it had grown rapidly into a mass-membership anti-apartheid organization , its initial focus being its opposition to the regime 's " tricameral " constitutional plans [ see p. 32599 ] . |
| 19 | It had developed largely as a realistic response to a political environment shaped externally by the rules and conventions of public accountability and internally by the central position of doctors . |
| 20 | All because it had ventured on to a lake where models were banned . |
| 21 | She said it had got off to a slow start but then the true issues had been recognised . |
| 22 | On the shores of uncharted CCT requirements the Computer Co-ordination Section has realised that it had to come up with a leaner , meaner , faster name for the Section . |
| 23 | They argued that the rapid movements involved in a star 's collapse would mean that the gravitational waves it gave off would make it ever more spherical , and by the time it had settled down to a stationary state , it would be precisely spherical . |
| 24 | Then it had held out against a wave of patriotism among a public which was totally unaware of the reality of modern warfare , never having been touched by it . |
| 25 | It had started out as a ship 's boiler but Selwyn had acquired it some years before to ensure a plentiful supply of soft water for his garden . |
| 26 | It had started out as a panacea for one failed relationship and had quickly become a relationship in itself . |
| 27 | It stayed poised there for a moment and another question , another proclamation of innocence , then he brought it down ready to drive into the small man 's stomach again . |