Example sentences of "it [vb past] [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came as quite a surprise ’ , said one . |
| 2 | It came as quite a shock to enter the brightly-lit building . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're delighted to get the award but it came as quite a surprise , ’ said business director . |
| 4 | If disputes within the party over policy and doctrine were one symptom of Conservative confusion , another was the ‘ legion of leagues ’ which appeared in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries , when it seemed that hardly a year went by without the founding of some new right-wing association . |
| 5 | In the wake of coverage by the national media , and the campaign of a local MP , it emerged that over a hundred children had been removed on Place of Safety Orders or by means of Wardship Proceedings in the space of less than 3 months . |