Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rarely pushed a non-paying customer into bankruptcy . |
| 2 | Sodomy was associated with witches , demons , werewolves , basilisks , foreigners , and ( of course ) papists ; and it apparently signified a wide range of practices including prostitution , under-age sex , coitus interruptus , and female transvestism . |
| 3 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |
| 4 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 5 | It only became a moot point because David was a meal ticket for so many people . |
| 6 | It only took a little adaptation for many familiar songs to take on a new life and vigour , especially with the accompaniment of timbrels , clapping and dancing . |
| 7 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 8 | ‘ After that it only took a single phone call to a friend on the television station in the north where you used to work . |
| 9 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 10 | The second , however , seemed ideal , and was cheaper , though unfortunately it only had a small section of moat left , which had been suburbanised into a rock garden . |
| 11 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 12 | It only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 13 | Then , it only commanded a small proportion of the UK biscuit market . |
| 14 | A wide range of views on the question also emerged in the responses from private practitioners , from those ( including some sole practitioners ) who felt reports should be required every three months , to those who questioned the general value of the accountant 's report on the grounds that it only provided a snap shot of a solicitor 's accounts at one particular moment , and was therefore of little value in detecting fraud . |
| 15 | No one is absolutely certain of the reasons for the collapse , yet it only needed a sudden fear that share prices would drop to produce panic . |
| 16 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 17 | Today , with just over a month to go before the general election , it only merited a few lines on the inside pages . |
| 18 | Cleo thought at first that the net would only drift right through the spirit , but it swiftly formed a sparkling ball round its prey , and Apanage lost no time in drawing the opening of the silk tightly together . |
| 19 | The coming of sound was probably crucial in this respect as it obviously placed a new emphasis on the contemporary American voice and on contemporary settings , which were in any case cheaper than conventional sets . |
| 20 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 21 | It looked like another case of thin fibres showing anomalously high strength and it naturally attracted a good deal of attention . |
| 22 | SORAFOM became OCORA and provided technical assistance to Francophone stations , for which it long remained a major source of material . |
| 23 | It created no new right of property or chose in action : it merely enabled a pre-existing right to be enforced . |
| 24 | It just seemed a total waste of time to bother redecorating it — the only solution seemed to be removing the chimney , adding an extension , or both . |
| 25 | It 's remarkable because we 've been talking about Twickenham to you ever since I think about the second round , and in those days it just seemed a little bit of a dream , but that dream is now just eighty minutes away is n't it ? |
| 26 | They were out there , it just took a long time to find them . |
| 27 | She 'd never been the crying sort — but it just took a few well-chosen words from him to reduce her to a jelly . |
| 28 | EMC is said to have plans of its own to bring out a new generation of Symmetrix , and is certainly not daunted by the hot breath of competition — it just announced a two-for-one stock split to be effected via a scrip dividend . |
| 29 | You ca n't it it just said a plain pencil drawing no felt tips no crayons . |
| 30 | The calvados did not flow like fire if taken with sucre en morceaux like this : it just gave a funny kick in the area of her chest , and made her gurgle with the heat of it . |