Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It arose out of a strike in July 1964 by ACTT television technicians claiming higher wages ( and an improvement in working conditions ) and it involved all the independent television companies , which included three for whom my firm acted . |
| 2 | Raising his voice a little , so that it cracked out like a whiplash , he said tersely , ‘ Off wi' thoo . ’ |
| 3 | But there it petered out in a welter of bloody , confused fighting . |
| 4 | A passer-by noticed the suspicious object strapped underneath the vehicle as it drove out of a car park last night , but failed in a desperate attempt to alert the driver . |
| 5 | Mostly it came over as a matter of feeling hard done by — self-pity rather than bravado ; or a habitual , weary tinkering to save a bit here and there . |
| 6 | Tony 's voice , when it came through without a crackle , brought a reassuring flood of gladness . |
| 7 | ‘ It came down to a willingness to pay for it . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Given that I was one of them it came down to a choice between Gower and Gatting . |
| 9 | It came back in a form against which there could be no defence . |
| 10 | But strangely enough that went out , it came in with a flush see ? |
| 11 | It came about through a mixture of chance , his own predilection for holidays , and Neville Chamberlain 's effective , narrow-sighted determination . |
| 12 | In part it came about as a reaction to the inordinate complexity of S-R theory but , I believe , it had much more to do with S-R theory 's failure to cope with real psychological problems like the performance of radar operators , and with the availability of machines , computers , with mind-like properties that made it respectable to think in mentalistic terms again . |
| 13 | She laughed shortly but it came out as a half-sob . |
| 14 | " Please — " I tried to formulate some plea in the middle of a pain , but it came out as a whimper . |
| 15 | I yelled … it came out as a croak only but it was a yell in my mind … |
| 16 | When the other hand came on her shoulder and turned into a grip , the ice in her body seemed to affect her , for it came out as a croak , saying : ‘ Da … |
| 17 | Lorton tried to laugh : it came out as a croak . |
| 18 | Er , I think it came out at a Trial Audit and we should have a job specification , even if it 's a generic job specification for every member of staff . |
| 19 | So it came out of a budget when we were all ratepayers , it did n't come out of poll tax payers ' budgets okay ? |
| 20 | Which was interesting at that time , since it came out of a tin and not out of an office . |
| 21 | Once she knew the other two women had talked , it came out like a flood . |
| 22 | And it sailed off to a island that it came to . |
| 23 | It chimed in with a mood of anti-étatisme in many countries , notably in France where the Chirac government used the Thatcher policy as a model in its privatization of state banks and other enterprises in 1984–6 . |
| 24 | It fetched up on a sandbank . |
| 25 | It flowed out in a torrent . |
| 26 | Part of Gould 's collection sent from Sydney shortly after his first visit to New South Wales only narrowly escaped being lost when it turned up in a warehouse that Gould happened to visit in Adelaide . |
| 27 | Peter Simpkins , who made the find , said : ‘ It showed up on a screen and all we had to do was dig it up . ’ |
| 28 | This was toast which was held on a toasting fork and was pressed against the bars so that the bread was scorched , it was then quickly turned ninety degrees so that it finished up with a grid pattern rather like a leaded window . |
| 29 | Tomorrow night we 'll show exclusive pictures of the MG RV8 on the road and ask why Rover is to bring back the car it killed off over a decade ago . |
| 30 | It stuck out of a patch of sand , jutting at a steep angle , about a metre and a half of it exposed . |