Example sentences of "it [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas , US Gold have retained this irritating quirk , and you 've only three credits to play with ( I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out , but it got jammed between the keys ) . |
| 2 | It got blown against a thatch-stone and got killed . |
| 3 | It got rid of the space between my teeth , which I did n't like anyway , so some good maybe came out of it after all . ’ |
| 4 | And nationalisation : that was great because it got rid of the old bosses . |
| 5 | It got rid of the crap if I can put it that way , sorted out my priorities . |
| 6 | it got hooked on the back of that one with a large paper clip . |
| 7 | Yeah , I know , it was killed in the one where it got trapped in the . |
| 8 | But I think that was when I was in the sea holding on to the bit of foam , and more or less just let myself float under the water , but me arm was round the top of the bit of foam , on the surface , and I think it got burnt by the the heat off the platform then . |
| 9 | Whereas if it got torn in the hand painted days then you 're talking a long length of time . |
| 10 | It became entwined with the separate dispute with ASLEF over flexible rostering , which the board had announced would be introduced from July with or without agreement . |
| 11 | But if , without derogation of the Divine power , we may conceive the existence of such ministers , and personify them by the term ‘ Nature ’ , we learn from the past history of our globe that she has advanced with slow and stately steps , guided by the archetypical light , amidst the wreck of worlds , from the first embodiment of the Vertebrate idea under its Ichthyic [ fish-like ] vestment , until it became arrayed in the glorious garb of the human form . |
| 12 | Local government was no longer boring — it was ‘ where it was at ’ , and it became elevated to a collection of grandiose projects . |
| 13 | John Rose set up the famous porcelain factory at Coalport in 1785 , and it became noted for the fine quality of its decoration and lavish gilding . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The reason that it became discredited on the scale and at the speed that it did was due to the efforts of the gentleman who introduced it , the right hon. Member for Cirencester and Tewkesbury ( Mr. Ridley ) . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | It was intended to represent the concept of a tram in 2937 , but its unfortunate shape resembled more closely a cottage-loaf , by which it became known to the crews . |
| 18 | If the hole contained three items it became known as a pur-3 , four items a pur-4 , and so on . |
| 19 | It became known as the Doomsday Book and it took two years to compile , but it illustrated that England was then a land of extensive royal forests and open fields , with only a few townships in the forest clearings , or at a river crossing . |
| 20 | For a time it became known as the Old Mill , and later Mill House . |
| 21 | It became known as the Astral Works in 1887 , and was used for the generation of electricity . |
| 22 | Since 1980 a proposal has been under discussion for a Directive which could require companies to introduce procedures for informing and consulting employees ; it became known as the ‘ Vredeling Directive ’ . |
| 23 | It became known as the Pleven Plan , named after the French premier , René Pleven , who took an outline drafted by his earlier mentor , Jean Monnet , and laid it before the French Parliament on 24 October 1950 . |
| 24 | In 1886 he became headmaster and in 1895 moved the school into premises designed by his father in Bardwell Road , where it became known as the ‘ Dragon School ’ , starting the long Lynam tradition which continued with his brother ‘ Hum ’ and nephew ‘ Joc ’ . |
| 25 | After a reference by Dr Robert Chalmers to ‘ the innocence of the railway ’ because of its pastoral and innocent appearance in comparison with the more sophisticated railways using steam locomotives where any accidents were likely to be severe , it became known as the ‘ Innocent ’ Railway . |
| 26 | It became known as the Matthews final . |
| 27 | Apart from generalities relating to balanced inclined planes , one patent sought to protect details of the lift as a whole ; the second sought to protect the device of gradually reducing the gradient of the upper end of the incline to balance the apparent loss in weight of the descending tank as it became immersed at the lower level . |
| 28 | The plant , a hardy perennial of the campion family , comes from eastern Russia originally but around the 16th century it became associated with the City of Bristol . |
| 29 | It became entangled in the fence . |
| 30 | It became mingled with the tales of a folk who lived in the east of your world ; they called it Adam 's Paradise . ’ |