Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] it [vb past] an " in BNC.
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1 | She could n't remember now how long he had held her imprisoned , only that it seemed an eternity of immeasurable time . |
2 | a lovely cottage , thatched roof cottage they lived in and it had an apple tree in the front , and a pear tree down the back , and all fruit trees . |
3 | Retail Week the other day gave a flavour of the debate elsewhere when it published an editorial declaring that it was ‘ Time for honesty on Sunday trading ’ . |
4 | Motorola Inc said yesterday that it paid an undisclosed sum for a stake in Cary , North Carolina-based Virtus Corp , a privately-held developer of the Virtus WalkThrough drawing and visualisation package for conceptual design . |
5 | Furthermore , ever since it became an independent department it has wanted to stop being merely a postman between the Treasury and the recipients of funds , and aspires instead to set the policy framework . |
6 | The NUR had an unfortunate experience , apparently , a few years back when it made an unwise sponsorship . |
7 | It er it 'd be handy actually if it generated an error when it did that . |