Example sentences of "it [vb past] with a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The numbers against it were still high ( 250 ) , but it passed with a respectable majority and was ready for promulgation . |
| 2 | He shook his head , his hair catching the light so that it gleamed with a blue fire . |
| 3 | The Lutheran Church , Benedictines and White Fathers also favoured the use of Swahili wherever possible , depending on where the mission was stationed ; it met with a certain amount of resistance in the provinces around Lake Victoria and in the north . |
| 4 | When the concept of a wholly implantable automatic defibrillator was the first suggested by Mirowski in the 1970s it met with a sceptical and even hostile response from some sections of the cardiological community . |
| 5 | The big lift took them up higher and higher until they reached the top floor when it stopped with a little bump . |
| 6 | It moved with a heavy surge and the dog released it , her hackles rising . |
| 7 | It burned with a pure and nursery flame in a blue and white saucer filled with matchsticks . |
| 8 | Convertibility eventually came in 1958 ; but it came with a fixed exchange rate . |
| 9 | It came with a generous 8Mb of RAM , backed by a full complement of 256Kb secondary cache RAM . |
| 10 | It seemed bigger than the sun and it sailed with a peculiar swiftness up into the heavens , growing paler and brighter as it did so until it lit up the plain with a dull , yellow light . |
| 11 | Egypt protested at FIFA 's original date of 28 March as it conflicted with a religious festival . |
| 12 | He alleged that the statute in question was invalid in that it conflicted with a fundamental principle of natural law , the right of free speech . |
| 13 | On Saturdays , it arrived with a stylish colour magazine , taken over from the Sunday Telegraph . |
| 14 | It arrived with a new sticker : ‘ Erster Airbus A340 flügel von Deutsche Airbus , Bremen . ’ |
| 15 | Here at the fault a ventilation shaft was being put up to the surface where it linked with a short low drift driven into the boulder clay near the foot of Kernal Crag . |
| 16 | It opened with a black screen and a voice that said , ‘ This is probably the most frightening place in the world . ’ |
| 17 | It opened with a lone commuter waiting for a train late at night . |
| 18 | The hotel has just completed its first year of operation , which it celebrated with a month-long daily cake-cutting ceremony . |
| 19 | The failure of the North-South Dialogue showed The South that The North — by which they meant the West — did have a coherent distinctiveness : power , financial , technological and military power which it protected with a specialized technological language unintelligible to anyone outside its closed circle except the Brown and Black Sahibs in The South who had been educated and trained in The North . |
| 20 | ‘ It began with a general paragraph about Christmas : Oh is n't Christmas lovely ? |
| 21 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 22 | ‘ And you 're saying it began with a Big Bang ? ’ |
| 23 | Evan loved to tell you that it began with a minor domestic row . |
| 24 | Sleep would perhaps make more sense after thirty-six hours straight on duty , much of it spent with a sullen Jamaican who had killed his landlady and her three children in the crowded kitchen of a house behind the Westway . |
| 25 | He held the parcel out and then let it fall , and it had time enough to turn lazily over before it landed with a solid smack on the terrace below and bounced towards the rail . |
| 26 | It started with a young girl being killed in our town . |
| 27 | It started with a 66th-minute goal from Marcus Stewart after a Paul Hardyman throw-in . |
| 28 | Nick Wright of the Photo Co-op also took four or five groups around the exhibition , and some 400 Education Packs were sent to schools around the country , explaining what Magnum is , how it started with a small band of six , and how it has now grown to over a hundred , with offices in New York , Paris and London . |
| 29 | As is usual with a carnival , it started with a Fancy Dress Procession around the parish , which finished at the Shady Bower Field , and a great deal of thought went into the entries . |
| 30 | Well , it was actually started by a few railway men , th right opposite Street there used to be hand laundry , and then there was a row of houses , from there , running up to the corner of Street where the club stands originally , but in the beginning it was just a row of small houses , and it started with a few railway men having a meet holding the meetings in this house , in these houses , and I 've got very dim memories of how it actually started but it was a real event when they were first , before they actually built the club it was run in the row of houses that ran from up Street as I say there was a little hand laundry corner of Street heading onto Street on the left hand side was the greengrocers , and that , they kept that greengrocers for as long as I can remember . |