Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 2 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 3 | It ruled out a reduction in pensionable age for men because it would cost too much — and opted for 65 for both sexes . |
| 4 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 5 | It made quite an impression on me . |
| 6 | There was a flurry of excitement in 1975 when it fought off a bid from General Electric of America . |
| 7 | Outside a car revved up its engine as it changed up a gear only to screech to a halt at the corner and roar off again . |
| 8 | Mr Samson , in the Barnard Castle-based 223 Field Ambulance Unit , threw a grenade from a trench but it bounced off a wall , rolled back and exploded just six feet away . |
| 9 | It created quite a stir on the camp when they left , as it was decided they would take all their ground crews with them in gliders . |
| 10 | I bought a pair of contact lenses more than two years ago , and from the start the left lens never felt comfortable in my eye ; it moved around a lot . |
| 11 | Though it weighed not a pennyweight more . |
| 12 | Their meeting with Dr Clifford Dobell , an authority on intestinal amoebae and later author of Anton van Leeuwenhoek and his Little Animals ( 1932 ) , was particularly fruitful in one respect , because it triggered off a discussion afterwards about honesty and bribery in science . |
| 13 | On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence . |
| 14 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |
| 15 | If they got in before ten it cost only a pound . |
| 16 | Finding it caused quite a stir in the brass band world . |
| 17 | It caused quite a sensation in the camp and people were flocking down from far and wide to have a good view , so we were informed later . |
| 18 | And I think it it caused quite a lot of hassle and difficulty for people with young children . |
| 19 | It assumed also an absence of political interference . |
| 20 | It told how an empire of six hundred miles wide and nearly three thousand miles long , so big the Incas called it Tahuantinsuyo , the Four Quarters of the Earth , had been engaged in a fratricidal war of succession when its miserable future was planned by two uneducated adventurers , Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro , and by a priest , Father Hernando de Luque . |
| 21 | It darted up a tree with breathtaking ease , and the young man watched it leaping from bough to bough , as light and airy as a puff of grey smoke . |
| 22 | It came over a treat on the radio transmitter when I played it back … ’ |
| 23 | I think it came out a bit more expensive that order , still if it 's what you want you 've got to have it have n't you ? |
| 24 | Such were the quantities of alchohol consumed that it seemed only a couple more years before London saw its first designer louts and designer riots . |
| 25 | Hodge and Parker commanded the midfield , Crosby and Rice , strongly supported by Laws and Pearce , drove forward on the flanks and it seemed only a matter of time before the right sort of cross reached Chapman or Clough . |
| 26 | The Phoenix King himself was trapped within the city , and it seemed only a matter of time before the entire land was devoured . |
| 27 | To the early Bolshevik leaders it seemed only a matter of months , if not days , before first Europe and later the rest of the world joined the Soviet and other socialist states . |
| 28 | It seemed only a matter of time , therefore , before the spending cuts and restrictions already imposed on the ILEA were followed by more drastic action . |
| 29 | It seemed only a matter of days before I was standing astride my bike at the gates of Sonning Common , together with my good friend Richard Smith ( who I think was twice as mad as me as he did n't have to do it ! ) |
| 30 | It was an object lesson in finishing that would have preyed on the minds of the Belgian team at half time as they reflected on an opening 45 minutes during which it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead . |