Example sentences of "it [vb past] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the credit side , the local base of the Poor Law meant that it operated in a face-to-face world where people and their problems were known . |
| 2 | Having satisfactorily ascertained its existence through the whole length of the spinal marrow , my next object was to discover whether it was a continued tube from one extremity to the other : this was most decidedly proved , by dividing the spinal marrow through the middle , and pouring mercury into the orifice where the canal was cut across : it passed in a small stream with equal facility towards the brain ( into which it entered ) , or in a contrary direction to where the spinal marrow terminates . |
| 3 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 4 | Yet even on the tapes of the talks , considerably less gilded than the memoranda , it let in a little light for a moment . |
| 5 | When it stopped in a remote area police pounced and arrested the robbers as they off-loaded the cargo . |
| 6 | ‘ The location of the offence can be described in evidence by any witness of the incident to show that it occurred in a public or a private place . |
| 7 | That time , last year , it rose in a great cloud a long way away , and stayed in the sky for two weeks . |
| 8 | Her eyes had become focused on the firm line of his lips , and a scalding message raced into her belly where it clenched in a strange , anticipatory tingle . |
| 9 | If it burned in a blue equilateral triangle , there was 2½ per cent methane in the air and ‘ the men had to be gotten out ’ . |
| 10 | It came in a tartan cardboard box and was labelled Highland Pea . |
| 11 | It came in a small erm small envelope . |
| 12 | Whatever lies Buddie chose to tell about it , she and Frankie would tell everyone the truth : that it came in a big parcel from across the sea in America . |
| 13 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 14 | See it installed in a public place and then bow out . |
| 15 | It sailed in a great arc , hung poised for a fraction of a second , then plunged out of sight to the sea . |
| 16 | It happened in a rural Branch not a million miles from the Western seaboard of Ireland . |
| 17 | Secondly , there 's no reason to suppose it happened in a small population . |
| 18 | It happened in a remote region of California , between Sacremento and Yosemite National Park . |
| 19 | It does n't only happen with women : it happened in a different way with Tom Keating and Chris Frayling ( who is Professor of Cultural History at the Royal College of Art ) . |
| 20 | The task did n't stop here — Fiona also had to write up a detailed log of the trip , complete with samples , photographs and complex scientific data showing when the river had high and low tides and why it flowed in a certain direction . |
| 21 | This transaction ‘ exposed the myth of the Fourth Estate ’ because it confirmed in a stark fashion the well established close connections between the press and politics . |
| 22 | It arrived in a great flood , a shock-wave of water that could be felt and heard . |
| 23 | So far it 's cost six lives , the first one just weeks after it opened in a multiple pileup in thick fog . |
| 24 | Mrs , I think , suspected the latter and it showed in a permanent coldness to them thereafter . |
| 25 | For some reason it began in a thick snowstorm of large white flakes . |
| 26 | The Workers ' Travel Association was set up to give workers the opportunity to travel ; it began in a modest way but by the 1950s had become a worldwide organization . |
| 27 | Complete with authentic jeeps and US Army gear from World War Two the Hospital was allowed to briefly relive its past … as it beckoned in a new chapter in its future with a brand new entrance |
| 28 | And sometimes it landed in a gay sorry mess and it really would n't there just a couple of feet a couple of stones high just the height of the jetty . |
| 29 | It was beautifully coloured , and it flew in a familiar jerky manner . |
| 30 | It flew in a shimmering curve and sliced Tom 's throat open . |