Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun] [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only a theory but it had always amazed him , and the other field operatives , how Philpott could come up with solid cover stories at such short notice . |
| 2 | I was just a boy and it affected me deeply . |
| 3 | A secondary school is making ten teachers redundant , just a month after it opted out of local authority control . |
| 4 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |
| 5 | We 'd only see it once a year if it stayed where it was . |
| 6 | Between 1613 and 1622 the Zemsky sobor , in which the pomeshchiks predominated , was generally summoned at least once a year and it continued to play an important consultative role until 1653 . |
| 7 | But she would look rather a fool if it did turn out to be only one of the children from the village . |
| 8 | Well no , now you see , now is , what 's happened is this tt we argued er the case after we saw the notice , but we only saw the notice about a week before it went into com into committee , so we 'd only a very short time to get everything organized , well we got letters and this petition , we sent it in to the council , Stanley came round and talked to one of the young men round our place , not like that , but he was saying oh we 'll do this , that and the other , but when he came round and now we know they 'd lobbied all the committee that were good and they knew it was gon na be passed , they knew before they went in it was gon na be passed |
| 9 | My last memory is about a week before it happened . |
| 10 | The trip was hazardous , as bilge-water created a stability problem and the Coastguard searchlight was now a hindrance as it lit up the flying spray . |
| 11 | Our press date prevents us giving details of this run but it must have been quite a spectacle if it went ahead as reported , and would have provided a fitting finale to an outstanding season of operations . |
| 12 | This went on for quite a while before it spoke again . |
| 13 | ‘ We saw each other around quite a lot but it took me a while to warm up . |