Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 2 | Gavin , who chose The Crusades , 1095–1154 , as his final specialist subject , said : ‘ It came as a great surprise to win . |
| 3 | Maggie was called to see Mr Parnham during the next morning and it came as a great surprise . |
| 4 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 5 | However , it came as a great shock to Richard when , some time later , this friend fell into profanity and drunkenness . |
| 6 | It came as a great shock . |
| 7 | Nasser was not informed of his mothers death until he returned to Khatatba , several months later , when it came as a great shock . |
| 8 | He says it came as a great shock , although when she was a drug addict they had wondered how she managed to pay for heroin . |
| 9 | Presently a window was opened and framed a sharp white peak which seemed to be hanging almost directly overhead ; it glistened like a great diamond . |
| 10 | It sailed in a great arc , hung poised for a fraction of a second , then plunged out of sight to the sea . |
| 11 | It arrived in a great flood , a shock-wave of water that could be felt and heard . |
| 12 | And it turned to a great marsh . |
| 13 | Thierry Millerand , Sotheby 's head of French furniture , remarks on the extreme rarity of the Louis XVI ormolu-mounted and painted satinwood and mahogany commode ( est. $1.2–1.6 million ) that is the top lot of the Ortiz-Patiño offering of French furniture : ‘ The commode is one of the very few surviving examples of French eighteenth-century painted and veneered furniture ’ and adds , ‘ We are certain that it was executed by Joseph Baumhauer and that it belonged to a great collector , Nicolas Beaujon , in the eighteenth century ’ . |
| 14 | ‘ It fell from a great height . ’ |
| 15 | Soon it thickened to a great blanket , wrapping itself round the windows so that every candle in the place had to be lit . |
| 16 | A good deal of the letter was fantasy on the part of its sixteen-year-old author and it ended with a great flourish of romantic rhetoric . |
| 17 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 18 | It ended in a great row . |
| 19 | It subsided in a great cloud of dust . |