Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [det] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 2 | Have you have you got any er idea of how i it came about that a group was so organized ? |
| 3 | In such situations its decision should only be overturned for bias when it acted in such a way prior to its decision that it could not properly have exercised its discretion , taking due account of its interest in the proceedings . |
| 4 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 5 | Coming as it did from such a family — not only from Lazarus ' and Lyon 's own strenuous devotions to their faith , in which names are of the greatest significance , but also from that of Solomon Klinitsky-Klein , his maternal grandfather and his very similar tradition . |