Example sentences of "a [noun] it [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed at the gate and after a struggle it creaked and groaned open on its one rusty hinge . |
| 2 | SunSoft , however , thanks to a license it inherited when it bought the Systems Products Division of Interactive Systems Corp , has a time-to-market advantage whose exact terms are still unclear . |
| 3 | For a second it seemed that he would be unable to respond , but then he found his voice . |
| 4 | For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his . |
| 5 | Pebbles had to snatch up briefly to avoid scrimmaging in front of her on the tight final bend , and for a second it looked as though she might be shut in . |
| 6 | For a fraction of a second it looked as though it were going to be just that , he 'd vaulted too hard and he was going to overshoot the small terrace and land on the ugly hard shapes of the garden furniture in the basement courtyard beneath . |
| 7 | Digital Equipment Corp reports that the state of Kentucky has awarded it a $10m contract to manage and provide technical and other support for state-wide educational reform ; the pact will enable DEC to start implementing a plan it developed as project consultant with the state education department — it plans to create the infrastructure for a state-wide information highway providing equitable access to technology and information throughout eight regional centres , 176 school districts and 1,400 schools across Kentucky ; the state 's public schools were declared unconstitutional in 1989 , primarily because of funding inequities between rich and poor school districts , and the new system is part of a wider plan to overhaul state schools ; it will be a model for other states in the use of technology in education reform . |
| 8 | For a moment it looked as though the desperate urgency of the international situation might enable peace activists to shift the dead weight of the party system . |
| 9 | For a moment it looked as though she was going to break down . |
| 10 | Rodrigo , hearing of this , rushed to Alfonso 's aid and for a moment it seemed that the Emperor would relent and rescind El Cid 's banishment . |
| 11 | For a moment it seemed that he would protest , but then he got up . |
| 12 | She did not turn her head when Melissa entered and for a moment it seemed that she was unaware of her presence . |
| 13 | For a moment it seemed as though it had tapped some hidden reserve of strength and would ease itself up on to the opposite bank , and escape into the forest . |
| 14 | For a moment it seemed as though everyone but d'Arquebus would career back down fifty metres to the base of the tube . |
| 15 | When I consulted a textbook it seemed that these were nuchal organs , important in food detection . |
| 16 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |
| 17 | Friendly representations on Dryden 's behalf got the ban lifted ( Cleomenes opened on 16 April ) , but with an ugly gap threatened in the theatrical diary , for a while it looked as though The Fairy Queen would have to be brought forward . |
| 18 | For a while it looked as though Caledonian Mining , the Nottinghamshire-based firm which the consortium beat for the pit , would be involved . |
| 19 | Before the last Test at the Oval , Gower exhorted his troops to ‘ one last , big effort ’ to avoid completely ignominy , and for a while it seemed that they might . |
| 20 | For a while it seemed that she might be right . |
| 21 | For a while it seemed that the whole black music scene had a fixation about penning songs with titles formed entirely around the same noun , Sam Cooke adding to his bank balance via ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ( 1963 ) while James Brown band singer Anna King and Bobby Byrd provides a classic of the same title during '64 . |
| 22 | However , in the context of the fragile family economy of the very poor in the years before World War I , it should be remembered that if a wife earned only 1/6d a week it meant that she could feed her family for two days . |
| 23 | For a time it seemed that Moran might choose to remain seated and force McQuaid to make his own way out of the house . |
| 24 | For a time it seemed that Christie 's had the inside track — they offered the Sharp apartment for sale in the late autumn of 1992 . |
| 25 | Gower , in at No. 5 , was left 18 not out , and for a time it seemed that the match had been swung . |
| 26 | For a time it seemed as though the white working class had vanished . |
| 27 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |