Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adv] it [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 2 | Her imagination had run wild as she had fantasised tirelessly about how it would feel to have him hold her , his mouth pressed in passion against her own . |
| 3 | Despite the earlier authors ' comments on the matter , at the moment of death the cat is not thinking of its human owners ' feelings , but simply about how it can protect itself from the terrifying , unseen danger that is causing it so much pain . |
| 4 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 5 | It was perfectly natural that Jake should marry — and , apart from how it might affect Kirsty , it was not an event that interested her in the slightest . |
| 6 | Thus a ladder filter comprising several sections and terminated in resistance tends to correct termination of sections rapidly along the ladder and responds overall quite closely to how it would respond if it were possible to correctly terminate the end section . |
| 7 | This this expression here V nine thousand five hundred minus a tenth of N that always tells us what V is worth , anywhere along here it 'll give us the value of the car . |
| 8 | Working through committees may provide opportunities for a form of participation in decision-making in an institution ( a cynical view would be that at least it may give the illusion of this ) , but by their nature committees can be introspective and restricted in their outlook . |