Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | it it got away a bit you know and and |
| 2 | The Northern Echo prompted a public outcry last year when it revealed how a night in the cells at Bishop Auckland police station cost £200 dearer than a room at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 3 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |
| 4 | Look at the decision of the Exchequer Chamber how we may , it laid down a new principle . |
| 5 | It ruled out a reduction in pensionable age for men because it would cost too much — and opted for 65 for both sexes . |
| 6 | With the DES having to settle for this , and with the Diploma being seen in higher education as merely equivalent to the first two years of a degree programme , it became not an alternative track in higher education , but an ambiguous poor relation to the degree . |
| 7 | It became increasingly a political pariah , relegated to a marginal position in society , which could be safely ignored by influential opinion . |
| 8 | It became successively a fish market , a cheap restaurant , and finally a store for the London County Council . |
| 9 | Of course it became quite a game searching for pairs of initials but I do n't remember finding Alfred 's once . ’ |
| 10 | And then it became perhaps a troublesome er entity . |
| 11 | and er as often as not they were ladies who had been separated or divorced and er they had all , a lot of sort of marital problems and it became almost a , a we welfare of job |
| 12 | It became subsequently a very celebrated and gallant defeat indeed , as the subject-matter of the great Anglo-Norman epic of the Chanson de Roland , composed at least 300 years after the event . |
| 13 | The government had promised a White Paper on inner cities , but in March 1988 it produced instead a thirty-two page glossy colour brochure , Action for Cities , and twelve separate press releases . |
| 14 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 15 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 16 | It made quite an impression on me . |
| 17 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 18 | There was a flurry of excitement in 1975 when it fought off a bid from General Electric of America . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It let out a long clang . |
| 21 | He raised his hand to his mouth in a gesture of dismay and held it suspended there a few inches from his face . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It created quite a stir on the camp when they left , as it was decided they would take all their ground crews with them in gliders . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ The Headmaster wants it moved along a little . |
| 26 | Though it weighed not a pennyweight more . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When the Heath administration first began to expand its intelligence activities in Ulster , it operated a number of agents , complete with English accents , before it built up an indigenous network . |
| 29 | On the higher literary level it rubbished quite a bit of Hardy and much of D.H.Lawrence . |
| 30 | It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay . |