Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chemical tests have proved that the water from this sump makes a further journey underground , passing beneath the road and railway at Selside , then under the River Ribble , to reappear in a large pool , Tarn Dub , on the far bank of the river which , all initiative spent , it gently feeds along a surface channel . |
| 2 | It only came out a couple of times , and I could n't get the words apart the end where it sounded something like ‘ scores off the bar , F*CK CANTONA , Brian Deane , Brian Deane , Brian Deane ’ . |
| 3 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 4 | Well Tony won it but I mean it still went down a treat . |
| 5 | It still lingers on a bit though . |
| 6 | I was a gambler on a winning streak : it did n't matter what number I placed my bet on , it always came up a winner . |
| 7 | But when BT introduced its computer service , it also brought in a charge of 43p per inquiry and , as a matter of policy , would not give addresses . |
| 8 | It also takes up a lot of memory for OPEN , remembering all states which might lead to a solution . |
| 9 | But it also sets up a fight between a firm 's shareholders and its other creditors . |
| 10 | But this , of course , makes no serious claim at all about the notion of consciousness , in the sense in which the word is normally used : it simply sets up a definition of the term on which virtually any organism higher than an amoeba is conscious , as would be many existing computers . |