Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening . |
| 2 | Normally it buzzed with cheerful conversation . |
| 3 | Thereafter it declined to pre-Falklands levels . |
| 4 | Socially it led to considerable gains : many of the codes , for example , contained clauses forbidding child labour , an evil never before tackled on a national scale . |
| 5 | A year later it died of old age and she buried it in the garden . |
| 6 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 7 | A little later it appeared in city-scale work , as at Coventry where the axial shopping mall , exploiting its fall in levels to provide two tiers of shops , made a striking feature . |
| 8 | Clearly it fell on deaf ears . |
| 9 | Too often it smelled of boiled cabbage and steamed fish . |
| 10 | A sort of well it looked like black wool but I mean it obviously was a brushed cotton I would say . |
| 11 | First , all the evidence that is available shows that the expansion of the social services did not so much rely on the workers made redundant from the industrial sector but rather it drew on new sources of labour — mainly women . |
| 12 | They mostly supplement the picture of the Soviet political system , how it operated in different circumstances and how it created and controlled its nuclear-energy network . |
| 13 | His own task was to make sure , no matter how it appeared to other people , that he constantly checked across from his private life of personal belief — and back again — to the professional , public and accountable life of a head . |
| 14 | Then it started on Cumbrian limestone , blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so , finally , to Raven Crag . |
| 15 | Then it rose through clinging cloud , curving gracefully outward like an upturned trumpet until it was truncated by a plateau fully a quarter of a mile across . |
| 16 | In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring . |
| 17 | He opened the car door and dropped his cigarette end on to the concreted surface where it glowed with vulgar ruddiness on the silver sharpness of the frost till he ground it under his foot as he stepped out . |
| 18 | The climate might seem sub-tropical if one is used to taking naturist breaks in Siberia but otherwise it felt like normal swimming-pool temperature to me . |