Example sentences of "it [vb past] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legend has it that it was once fired on by a warship because it failed to reply to a signal ! |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp got a bloody nose when it went head-to-head with Novell Inc and challenged NetWare with LAN Manager , and what it failed to achieve with a full frontal attack , it is now trying to secure by stealth . |
| 3 | It got blown against a thatch-stone and got killed . |
| 4 | As in the first phase of its activity , it sought to rely on a mix of massive public protest with occasional more direct forms of action . |
| 5 | Local government was no longer boring — it was ‘ where it was at ’ , and it became elevated to a collection of grandiose projects . |
| 6 | The water , containing zinc , arsenic , mercury , copper , nickel and cadmium , poured from the Wheal Jane mine after it became flooded as a result of the ending of pumping operations earlier in the year . |
| 7 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 8 | If the hole contained three items it became known as a pur-3 , four items a pur-4 , and so on . |
| 9 | Naturally enough , the new , faster , mode of transport acted to reduce trade rather than to increase it and the mill suffered declining fortunes until it ceased to operate as a flour mill shortly after World War II . |
| 10 | She made several ‘ women 's ’ films for Rank , including STREET CORNER ( 1953 ) about the women police in Chelsea , which she always cited as a particularly enjoyable experience since it involved working with a mainly female crew and cast . |
| 11 | A Netherlands DC-10 crashed as it tried to land during a storm at Faro , Portugal , on Dec. 21 , killing 54 people . |
| 12 | In his eyes it came to rank on a par with his Education White Paper of 1943 . |
| 13 | it came to seem after a while like a place of recuperation . |
| 14 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |
| 15 | The effect of giving non-reinforced pre-exposure to the target flavour was to reduce the readiness with which it came to function as a safety signal — that is , the outcome was the opposite of that predicted by the suggestion that the pre-exposed stimulus might already have acquired some of the properties of a safety signal . |
| 16 | The sheriff ran his eye over the pile of guns , ammunition pouches and knives , till it came to rest on a radio transmitter . |
| 17 | The horses ' hooves and the wheels of the cart were muffled in straw so that it seemed to glide like a terrible phantasm . |
| 18 | It seemed to flow from a weaker to a stronger system , thus acting contrary to the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 19 | It seemed linked in a way with my wanting to see Alison again . |
| 20 | Incredibly enough , it seemed to end with a choice . |
| 21 | I think at first it seemed to work at a disadvantage . |
| 22 | It seemed to come from a bin outside the bank . |
| 23 | It looked like a red dome on top of the tiles , and the air around it seemed to waver in a haze of heat . |
| 24 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 25 | After three dormant years it began humming like a computer , sucking in information of which it had been starved , until my head began to hurt physically with the effort . |
| 26 | It began to feel like a night at the Marx Bros opera where you had to guess what Harpo was trying to say . |
| 27 | I seemed to have no value for him and it began to feel like a kind of death . |
| 28 | He put the pan back on the heat , turned the steak over , and it began bubbling in a controlled manner . |
| 29 | Ldr. ) continues : ‘ When the Sunderland started to burn it started to drift towards a crane , which was , together with the surrounding area , the responsibility of the Royal Navy , and was used for torpedo storage . |
| 30 | Did n't realise until it started howling like a demented banshee ! ’ |