Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’ |
| 2 | So maybe it took one minute more than it should as the crow flies . |
| 3 | She pulled the white cord so tight it cut red weals into the white flesh . |
| 4 | More hearteningly it showed that teasing seemed to decrease as pupils got to know each other better as classmates , and despite the possibility of teasing most of the children interviewed welcomed the social breadth of the integrated setting . |
| 5 | Most notably it swept southern Africa , though he did talk about a visit to Russia where his hosts had told him Labour would be good partners in disarmament . |
| 6 | about this bra top thing she 's got and how it 's got a hole in it and she was trying to think back how it got this hole in it and she remembered that Mark put his fingers through it |
| 7 | Nevertheless AFHQ was not informed that the Croats had been turned back until the morning of 16 May , and even then it took some time for the information to be fully taken in by all branches concerned . |
| 8 | British Aerospace was amongst the features today when it lost 12 pence to four hundred and fif , five hundred and forty one pence on rumours that the Saudis had cancelled some Tornado options . |
| 9 | From then on it became big game and for fifty years the only ones to leave China were dead . |
| 10 | It has not disclosed how much it thought these brands were worth . |
| 11 | Waiting her turn , trying not to feel overwhelmed by the noise in the bustling concourse , Chesarynth watched how long it took each person ahead of her . |
| 12 | He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory . |
| 13 | And I heard a lot about how well it worked last time . ’ |
| 14 | Even the Irish edition of the Daily Star said something positive about Sellafield recently when it reported that radon gas was to blame for 500 deaths every year . |