Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Something in his demeanour made a tremulous question form in Katherine 's mind , but it fluttered away at the distinctive sound of Violette 's infectious laugh . |
| 2 | Mattan and the yellow jersey were right in the middle of the pack as it peddled hard in the blistering heat . |
| 3 | Second half was better , though it got off to a poor start with Speed and MacAllister passing the ball away to Ipswich players . |
| 4 | It got off to a hairy start with several heated discussions about what a wild boar is . |
| 5 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 6 | An energy policy was , however , not surprisingly not quickly agreed ; it passed only after a long and bitter struggle that extended through most of Carter 's term of office and the package of measures finally agreed was inevitably different and weaker than the one the White House had originally requested . |
| 7 | Against the broad yellow light Cameron and Menzies could see the officer in silhouette , walking his horse forwards to meet a crowd in the road where it levelled out after the sharp rise from the bridge across to Grandtully . |
| 8 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 9 | Well , I can honestly say it lived up to every good word , every tribute , for despite the event being played out in an unrelenting , warm , monsoon-like downpour , with the playing area akin to one great mud-wrestling arena , it was a superb spectacle . |
| 10 | It crept in amongst the ordered ranks of hieroglyphics in a simple line of graffiti , scrawled in French , on the hull of one of the royal barques : " You must not forget me . " |
| 11 | Within families filial piety was the keystone of morality and it led logically to an absolute obedience to the household head . |
| 12 | In their evidence to the Redcliffe-Maud Commission , the Ministry of Housing and Local Government ( MHLG ) ( as it then was ) argued that it led neither to an improved speed nor to a better quality of development control : the advantages which flowed from delegating some of the work load to district councils were offset by the shortage of qualified planning staff in most district offices , by the limited range of problems which arose within any one area , by the difficulties caused by the natural inclination of district councils to take a ‘ narrow view ’ , and by the extra administrative complications that limited delegation usually entailed . |
| 13 | In the Far East , the Azahari revolt broke out in Brunei in December 1962 ; and , although it was crushed relatively easily by British and Gurkha troops stationed in Malaya , it led on to the Indonesian ‘ Confrontation ’ , which began in a small way in April 1963 . |
| 14 | At first the gospel of family limitation appears to have been spread most effectively among the middle classes before it percolated through to the working classes . |
| 15 | It headed away from the distant airport building , a single-storey edifice , away from the main road to Rovaniemi , heading east cross-country into the wilderness . |
| 16 | QUAYLE Munro , the small Edinburgh merchant bank , is set to become a quoted company following what it described yesterday as a reverse takeover by East of Scotland Industrial Investments , the unquoted investment group managed by the bank , writes BILL MILLAR . |
| 17 | Then it moved away at a brisk trot , the small and incredibly ugly imp that was perching on its lid watching the scenery with interest . |
| 18 | The sound of the engine starting up was a welcome intrusion , the smooth glide of the craft as it moved out into the main stream a gratifying feeling . |
| 19 | WASHINGTON — The Soviet Union risked an ‘ inflationary disintegration ’ of its economic reforms unless it moved rapidly to a convertible rouble backed by gold , according to Wayne Angell , a governor of the US Federal Reserve , writes John Lichfield . |
| 20 | Slowly , it moved upwards among jagged folds of rock hanging like petrified curtains above their heads ; it swung to the right and travelled downwards , glistening on a myriad crystalline particles in the rock face ; it moved across to the left and traced a black line where the stone floor ended abruptly just short of the far wall . |
| 21 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 22 | One might think that this unpredictability would n't matter too much if it occurred only at the big bang ; after all , that was ten or twenty billion years ago . |
| 23 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 24 | It branched off opposite a small village , a satellite of Reggane , almost where I had begun walking . |
| 25 | ‘ 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 . |
| 26 | When it drove away over the ochre expanse , it broke into pieces and dissolved in the air . |
| 27 | In return BBC Scotland received £27 million to make the programmes screened during the periods it opted out of the national network , and £14.5m towards the cost of making programmes in Scotland for the network . |
| 28 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 29 | The amber liquid shook in the glass and some of it spilled on to the tan cloth of her Burberry . |
| 30 | It roared back into the black last year to the tune of £6.8 million , compared with taxable losses in 1991 of £1.2 million . |