Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ruled out a reduction in pensionable age for men because it would cost too much — and opted for 65 for both sexes . |
| 2 | There was a flurry of excitement in 1975 when it fought off a bid from General Electric of America . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It came over a treat on the radio transmitter when I played it back … ’ |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | A few weeks ago it auctioned off a lot of its furniture and fixtures as unnecessary to the kind of business it would be doing . |
| 11 | Their colonization of Brazil was even more momentous since it opened up a source which during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries led the world in the production of gold . |
| 12 | It poured down a cataract which cleansed the ground of every deadly device . |
| 13 | and he got it turned up a bit and sounds bloody from the other room |
| 14 | It turned up a year later , all rewritten but basically identical , as a PhD at San Diego . |
| 15 | Er and it turned out a year till he licence back . |
| 16 | It ricocheted off a bulkhead , impossibly loud in the confined space , and buried itself in the fleshy part of Terhune 's thigh . |
| 17 | Then it rumbled along a bridge , so Dot could see into the friendly clutter of people 's back yards , down into bomb-sites to view the mystery of chaos . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's done on the barrel , ’ said the chairman who much more happily confided that at 59 of course he will be batting and bowling again this summer , ‘ and that 's what it worked out a pint . |
| 19 | ‘ It droned on a bit — and there was nobody there to answer any of the questions that were raised . ’ |
| 20 | But I mean it brought up a lot of things that we perhaps |
| 21 | It brought back a flood of fear and an almost unbearable memory of loss , the body of the warrior Gyonval fighting with the wood , impaling itself on a sharp branch as if that might keep the soul from parting . |
| 22 | Former South Liverpool and Marine defender John said : ‘ I was in the clip that was shown on TV and it brought back a lot of memories . |
| 23 | It brought in a record number of entries from around the Group — but only four were correct ! |
| 24 | But at least it brought in a lot of new business for the organisation which now likes to call itself the listening bonk . |
| 25 | Ten minutes later it sent out a distress call saying two of its four engines caught fire . |
| 26 | Ten minutes later it sent out a distress call : ‘ Two of the four engines are on fire . ’ |
| 27 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 28 | ‘ It wore out a minute or so ago . |
| 29 | As the vote approached , it seemed likely that the favoured version would not actually stop spending if it went over a cap , but merely require a special vote to approve or disapprove it . |
| 30 | A thirteen year old boy has fallen through the window of his school bus as it went round a corner . |