Example sentences of "it [vb past] a [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it got a hold on us , too . |
| 2 | Once Mr Hooper started managing this group , it got a name for itself — ‘ Black and Blue ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ It laid a trap for us , Mr Cardiff . |
| 4 | Angry with her emotional dependence on her lover , she glued a dart board onto black painted wood so it became a head for her lover 's shirt pasted on below , threw the darts at the target and left him . |
| 5 | Then it became a necessity to which nearly everyone conformed . |
| 6 | It became a daily on its fourth anniversary in 1965 . |
| 7 | So it became a tussle between us . |
| 8 | Maybe hatred could grow so strong that it became a force of its own , he thought — a real physical force . |
| 9 | Formerly a disparate collection of enthusiastic amateurs , it became a profession with its own cutting edge . |
| 10 | And if that happened , whether it became a matter for him personally and for the proposed new squad would depend on how great the scandal , how real the suspicion and of what precisely . |
| 11 | Later , as the boys became teenagers and young men , it became a place for them to meet their girlfriends . |
| 12 | It became an offence for anyone in charge of children to allow them to bet in public places or to enter brothels . |
| 13 | It became an industry in itself and the tourist industry is now acknowledged as an essential part of the Scottish economy . |
| 14 | A Duxbury calculation could not by itself provide the answer as to the sum to which the wife was entitled , though it produced a figure to which the judge was entitled to have regard in deciding what was the right answer . |
| 15 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 16 | Where direct rule had been established a long time — in India , for example — it provided a framework in which there could grow an acceptance of European ideas of political organization . |
| 17 | With its egalitarian traditions of periodic redistribution of the land it provided a basis on which Russia could bypass capitalism and make a direct transition from semi-feudalism to socialism . |
| 18 | For a time it provided an umbrella beneath which the other organisations came together . |
| 19 | The contact with Wren is of particular interest in that it provided an influence on his own architectural style , to be seen , for example , in the Clare north range ; but otherwise his designs display a pleasant artisan manner rather than a full understanding of the grammar of classical architecture . |
| 20 | The almost complete lack of response , one way or the other , from the Masai , only seems to have encouraged these fantasies , because it provided an environment in which fantasy was rarely tested against reality . |
| 21 | Between 1941 and 1945 it created a following for itself which has never been equalled since and certainly did not exist at any time prior to 1941 . |
| 22 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 23 | Royal Navy bomb disposal experts from Rosyth were on board a trawler , the George Duncan , two miles of the coast at Crimdon , near Hartlepool , last night after it caught a mine in its nets . |
| 24 | It cast a shadow from which nothing could escape . |
| 25 | It was a light voice , and it stirred a chord in her memory . |
| 26 | The radiotherapy treatment killed the cervical cancer in mother-of-four Jennifer , but it burned a hole in her bowel . |
| 27 | She shuddered , half leaning into his plundering mouth as it burned a fever into her throat . |
| 28 | It seemed a part of him . |
| 29 | The exclusion only lasted a few minutes , but it seemed a lifetime to her . |
| 30 | It seemed a marathon to me but realistically it was roughly one thirty-fifth of a mile , which left thirty-four thirty-fifths still to go . |