Example sentences of "and it [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , leading up the General Election , one tabloid paper said truth , not propaganda , and it ran a series of articles each day de doing features on the main Parties , to give a fair and balanced view , but also running other features claiming nothing wrong with the N H S , banking systems and other high profile problems . |
| 2 | It was written large and thick in bright red ink and it sent a shock of fear slicing through her . |
| 3 | It helped make up the minds of waverers on the question of independence and it sent a signal about Serbian intentions to the outside world . |
| 4 | It was at this point I think Batty came on and it made a f- of a difference . |
| 5 | ‘ Powick still had its reputation for cheapness and it made a profit . ’ |
| 6 | And it made a change to be told before and not after the job that a cow was a kicker . |
| 7 | His prestige stood high , and it made a sensation when he denounced the CPP for corruption and waste . |
| 8 | I made a face at my face and it made a face back at me . |
| 9 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 10 | And it meant a respray on her car and a new door for Lizzie 's car , sit down . |
| 11 | Modern Poland needed to accomplish certain tasks in order to stay alive , and it searched a pre-nationalist , pre-nation-state Polish history to find the seeds of action , historical necessity and national logic . |
| 12 | Having survived the worst Braintree hit back well and it became a question of how much damage Dean Ford could inflict , firing away with penalties as Romford became increasingly fractious . |
| 13 | Uncle used to tease him about it and it became a standing joke . ’ |
| 14 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |
| 15 | I knew one little poem by her , when I was very small , and it became a kind of touchstone . |
| 16 | In the same year as Queen Victoria succeeded her uncle , King William IV , Dr. Edward Tuke took a lease on the Manor Farm House , in what by then was called Chiswick Lane , and it became a home for mentally ill gentle-persons . |
| 17 | Quickly they spread it out , and it became a sail ; the boat flew over the waves , faster than the sea-people could follow . |
| 18 | De Burgh wrote Lady in Red for Diane six years ago and it became a No 1 across the world . |
| 19 | The right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , in her wisdom , guillotined the Single European Act through the House and it became an Act of Parliament . |
| 20 | It was at this time that the Club first negotiated to use the cricket field for ‘ tuition ’ and it became an overflow car park in 1966 . |
| 21 | A soviet ( or governing council ) representing each of the twelve nahijes ( districts ) within the pashalik was established , but its powers were vaguely defined and it became an instrument which Karadjordje could use or ignore as he felt fit . |
| 22 | The 1986 Programme , similarly , contained no reference to the historic goal of the withering away of the state ( it had long been predicted that the only thing that would wither away was the idea that the state should wither away ) ; its main emphasis was upon practical and short-term objectives , and it struck a disciplinarian rather than utopian note in its references to careerism , nepotism and profiteering . |
| 23 | That 's that 's a wonderful piece of football and and it deserved a goal . |
| 24 | It was , of course , hilarious in itself but then I got this bit of smoked salmon ( coloured red of course ! ) and draped it across her upper lip and it looked a bit like a moustache . |
| 25 | It was in the February 1992 issue and it looked a bit complicated but so do most things before you actually have a go . |
| 26 | I was put off it from an early age because it used to be used in the by-lines in the Daily Telegraph and it sort of and it looked a bit wrong . |
| 27 | And it got a hold on us , too . |
| 28 | The last tour I had the whole thing note-for-note worked out and it got a bit boring after a while ; this way it stays exciting and sometimes I pull it off and sometimes I die a death . |
| 29 | But perhaps it would be nice if somebody gave you a gift voucher for Christmas and it said an eyebrow trim , and you were dying to have an eyebrow trim but you did n't know where to come , and perhaps you were a little bit frightened about having one , so , it might , you know , get you to come into the salon . |
| 30 | Some of my members were overwhelmed by the sheer numbers there and it brought a lump to my throat , but that 's what it 's all about , solidarity . |