Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After he 'd left the room , it filled up with a stressful silence . |
| 2 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It came again with a great wakening light , |
| 5 | It came up with a complex route which involves both endocytosis and fusion . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It came out with a sickening plop and a gushing gout of blood . |
| 8 | Wycliffe saw a gull which seemed to be standing on the water but as he watched it took off with a derisive squawk and he caught sight of the lattice framework of the Wheel lifting to the swell . |
| 9 | When the apparatus functioned properly , it did so with a loud clonk that the writer could hear from his home near Selby Road . |
| 10 | The growth of the NSDAP in Danzig followed that of its growth in the Reich , but it did so with a slight time-lag — a phenomenon of border districts everywhere . |
| 11 | Consequently , when a handful of practitioners came together in 1979 , it did so with a single guiding principle : ‘ the real measure of development is the ability of a people to build its own comprehensive and complimentary and independent infrastructure that is capable of dealing with its own problems , needs and aspirations . ’ |
| 12 | 3.1 In the last chapter , we examined what is , in a certain sense , a side-issue since it dealt mainly with a particular variation of value found within a single one of the constructions open to adjectives in English . |
| 13 | In 1990 it came of age , in 1991 it carried on where it left off with a superb Easter opening at a cold and windy Donington Park , England … |