Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 9 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 10 | It branched off opposite a small village , a satellite of Reggane , almost where I had begun walking . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 13 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 14 | In the Weald ( extending into Kent ) the Sussex could thrive on rough or scarce grazing but , put on good pasture , it fattened quickly with a high daily weight gain . |
| 15 | It came again with a great wakening light , |
| 16 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It came up like a multi-coloured balloon and was pretty painful for a while . |
| 19 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 20 | It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood . |
| 21 | It came out in a hoarse whisper , ‘ It 's morning , nearly . ’ |
| 22 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 23 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 24 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 25 | It opened out onto a narrow flight of stone steps . |
| 26 | With a creak it opened inwards on a dark hole . |
| 27 | It consisted only of a simple two-storey stone block with an overall shed behind covering two platforms . |
| 28 | It consisted mainly of a large area of more or less flat heathland that was in places marshy and out of which rose the only hill to be found here , the broad , low Knamber Foin that looked from a distance no more than a heap of stones . |
| 29 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 30 | It popped up in a recent Capes , Dunn sale of toys , teddy bears , model railways et al and made £190 . |