Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For a second the shell lay with a smoking fuse amidst the wreckage of the wheel , then it crashed apart in a deafening explosion . |
| 6 | Its headlights came on full beam , and it accelerated away with a rising roar which brought heads to windows all along the street . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It came again with a great wakening light , |
| 9 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 10 | It faded away for a few seconds before starting again as others joined it , their howls hanging eerily in the cold shadows of the trees of Regent 's Park , before dying down again among the bars and cages of London Zoo . |
| 11 | With a creak it opened inwards on a dark hole . |
| 12 | It consisted only of a simple two-storey stone block with an overall shed behind covering two platforms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It showed again on a second test-firing on 25 January and was finally traced to the manifold a few days later . |
| 15 | It relied substantially on a voluntary approach . |
| 16 | Over the next few centuries it shifted from one to the other of the latter two until , with the establishment in the tenth and eleventh centuries of an ‘ English ’ monarchy , it served only as a minor shire , more quoted in tax returns than in high politics before the advent of the Normans . |
| 17 | It fed both on a new nationalism , and a revivification of orthodoxy in the face of the challenge of science and materialism . |
| 18 | Thereafter it evolved rapidly into a formidable force . |
| 19 | The vast red sail burst free of its lashings , the wind filling it so that it bowed forward in a great scarlet curve on which was painted in brilliant gold the portrait of the Golden Girl herself , bubble-curled , lips pouting — Marilyn Monroe . |
| 20 | Bouncing and bucking down the rough , uneven scrubland of the sloping ground beyond , it finally fetched up hard when it smashed head-on into a rocky outcrop . |
| 21 | The summit of it curled forward like a giant wave at the point of breaking . |
| 22 | It brought together on a grand scale the children of many nations whose parents and older brothers would have fought on opposing sides in the war . |
| 23 | ‘ It had lost all the appearance of a sexual implement ; it looked disgustingly like a cheap gadget from the five and ten cent store , like a bright-coloured piece of fishing tackle minus the bait . ’ |
| 24 | It looked rather like a closed triptych . |
| 25 | It looked rather like a large rook but , unlike a rook , it was alone . |
| 26 | Yeah it did , it looked just like a little old man . |
| 27 | It looked more like a public building or a sanatorium . |
| 28 | It looked so like a dead thing . |
| 29 | I brought it for you and it 's your duty to see it put away in a decent fashion . ’ |
| 30 | When a coinage did reappear in the reign of the Northumbrian king , Eanred , in the early ninth century it did so at a lower silver standard which continued to decline . |