Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amounted to only a fraction of the EC budget and was designed to supplement , not supplant , national policies . |
| 2 | ‘ Lomax ! ’ she snapped , her voice sounding as if it came from inside a biscuit tin . |
| 3 | It offended no one ; it preserved at least a whiff of the old tradition . |
| 4 | It acted as both a challenge and a rebuff . |
| 5 | Dexter explained how he was wavering about the list of suspects : one moment thinking it consisted of only a handful of people and then believing almost anyone in the building could have done it . |
| 6 | It was now six in the evening and drinks were served — it turned into quite a party . |
| 7 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 8 | It felt like quite a haven of peace in comparison to Bamford . |
| 9 | You know I was only away for two nights , it felt like about a week . |
| 10 | On this basis , Lynch and Bliss were to argue , rather as Kandel had done earlier for serotonin in Aplysia , that it was presynaptic plasticity that was important for the initiation of LTP , and the postsynaptic cell was simply doing what it had to as a result of the increase in the strength of the glutamate signal it was receiving . |
| 11 | Although late rebleeding often occurred and resulted in readmission to hospital , it accounted for only a minority of deaths . |
| 12 | In one case it stretched to below a woman 's knees and in another the pubic hair was gathered into a tasteful plait that reached behind her back . |
| 13 | In spite of the difficulties of organizing and sustaining such an action in conditions of clandestinity , it continued for almost a week — an unprecedented event in the Franco regime . |