Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It involved about a dozen groups and a network of experts throughout Europe and is the largest future study of biotechnology that I am aware of . |
| 2 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 3 | It seemed like a thousand years had lapsed since ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ and how refreshing it was , how exciting to place the record clumsily on the turntable for the first time to be faced with the full frontal body blow that is the title track . |
| 4 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 5 | In any case it succumbed within a few years to the stresses of the Seven Years War , and was not revived until 1775 . |
| 6 | And there it teetered for a few seconds before finally toppling over and falling with a sharp tinkle on to the desk-top . |
| 7 | Ten minutes later in the gymnasium downstairs Lee reflected that if she threw one of the dumb-bells she was using at the wall-sized mirror and it shattered into a hundred pieces around a central trauma , she would wake herself up and everybody around her and get into the local papers . |
| 8 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to see the return of the Yorkshire Ridings and the abolition of Humberside and Cleveland so that Yorkshire can again stretch from the Humber to the Tees as it did for a thousand years before 1974 , ’ said Mr Sykes . |
| 10 | He said that he did it because everybody wanted him to do it , and he even agreed with me that bits were like Simon and Garfunkel and it sounded like a hundred songs written before , and admitted that he was cashing in on the moon landing but thought he could make some money doing it . |
| 11 | It hovered for a few moments , then suddenly it dropped to the floor with a tinkle and broke in two . |
| 12 | It ended with a few paragraphs I 'll quote : |