Example sentences of "[adv] it [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so it probably aroused some sympathy among the Party membership , though it could not prevent a movement which was receiving support from national figures . |
| 2 | You go along thinking you know exactly what everything is , and then you stop and look at it and it does n't make any sense and you think maybe it only made any sense in the first place because everyone was pretending it did . |
| 3 | There it evidently found another food supply , animating the material in its excitement as though it were a restless human hand . |
| 4 | He is , in fact , a rare surviving embodiment of those long-vanished ideals of the 1950s , when it briefly seemed that University English might provide a terrain where all these practices could converge . |
| 5 | The ‘ council movement ’ was especially vigorous , and was widely debated among socialists in the years immediately preceding and following the First World War ( Renner , 1921 ; Pribicevic , 1959 ) ; and more recently it again aroused growing interest as a result of the experience of workers ' self-management in Yugoslavia , some tentative steps in that direction in other East European countries during the 1970s , and the formulation of ideas about ‘ participatory democracy ’ that arose from the new social movements of the late 1960s . |