Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amalgamated with a boys ' secondary modern in September 1975 to form a mixed comprehensive but retained a strong grammar school ethos amongst a section of the senior teachers . |
| 2 | She laughed — straight into his white face , so white that the red patches on it seemed like a clown 's makeup . |
| 3 | ‘ Bas said it looked like a tart 's bedroom , ’ said Dancer cheerfully . |
| 4 | It sounded like a child 's voice , lilting and clear . |
| 5 | It sounded like a midwife 's warning . |
| 6 | It fell ill , unknown to the family , and as it was mid-winter it crawled under a neighbour 's balcony to escape from the cold , where it expired . |
| 7 | The power chair hummed back and forth as if the mechanical subhuman was advancing towards its argument , then retreating ; and the scrimshaws hanging from it rattled like a sorcerer 's skirt of juju bones . |
| 8 | It crackled like a ship 's radio , and then , as if from a very great distance , we heard a band strike up . |
| 9 | ‘ which carried obligatory lamps ’ can be proved by describing which obligatory lamps it carried in a witness 's statement . |
| 10 | It was very conventional , even old-fashioned , but its tensions built up in just the right way , and it gripped like a strangler 's hand . |