Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was jilted after five years together it had a devastating effect . |
| 2 | Apparently it goes a long way . |
| 3 | Naturally it prefers a muddy tank bottom . |
| 4 | I 'm Emma with her silly little clever-clever theories of love and marriage , and love is something that comes in different clothes , with a different way and different face , and perhaps it takes a long time for you to accept it , to be able to call it love . |
| 5 | I 'm not sure perhaps it has a thin catheter or wire I do n't know wire I 'm not sure . |
| 6 | And obviously it reaches an awful lot of people , because Community Centres cater for all ages . |
| 7 | Only it seems a long way to go ! |
| 8 | I do speak German , only it needs a major overhaul to set it right . ’ |
| 9 | And so it took a great deal of time erm , in the nineteen thirties , for farmers to cease production . |
| 10 | It was in front of 72,000 people in the Stadium , half a billion people around the world and so it took an incredible amount of getting hold of myself to do it . |
| 11 | So it takes a long time think more egalitarian . |
| 12 | So it produces an odd sensation to learn , again from Anna , that this superstition was in fact Dostoevsky 's . |
| 13 | I think David had one or two of the songs off ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ way before and so it became a natural progression to do that . |
| 14 | So it became a twice-yearly event by necessity , rather than design . |
| 15 | It ignores the real history of the press in Britain and so it paints a naïve picture of a conservative and debased medium which offers little real choice . |
| 16 | So it makes a refreshing change to able to write about something nice . |
| 17 | Erm so it makes a common basis of communication . |
| 18 | Soon he was joined by other Europeans and henceforth it became a common sight to see one or other of the ladies or gentlemen of the " confident " party slapping away at the trough where once the dhobi had slapped ( for on the day after the Collector 's appearance the dhobi had vanished from the enclave , either because he considered it too dangerous to remain any longer now that the commander of the garrison had assumed the caste of dhobi or , more likely , because he resented the competition ) . |
| 19 | Nevertheless it remains an excellent opening strike because , even more than the snap punch , it cocks the hips for a powerful reverse punch . |
| 20 | At the moment it is closed but normally it displays a rich collection of textiles . |
| 21 | Thus it ensures a continuous process of review covering all permissions . |
| 22 | Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’ |
| 23 | Elsewhere it proved a negative variable , even in areas with a sizeable Jewish presence such as Leeds or Manchester . |
| 24 | Finally it suggests an alternative approach to the standard studies of ‘ white collar crime ’ and the limits of legal regulation . |
| 25 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
| 26 | An inquest jury at Buckingham was told that a 3 year old boy may have dropped the baby on the floor , but yesterday it returned an open verdict after the Coroner Rodney Corner warned that the evidence was contradictory . |
| 27 | This discovery gave fresh impetus to research aimed at developing new drugs which , like aspirin , would relieve pain and control inflammation , and also it provided a new basis for testing candidate compounds . |
| 28 | This not only involved the SCCs in vocational guidance and after-care in a formal sense prior to the creation of juvenile labour exchanges , but also it provided an influential role for the ASEA , certainly for its practice . |
| 29 | Clearly it involves a mass narcissism which is supported by the social structures within which they work and play . |
| 30 | Well clearly it serves a different function from the from the A fifty nine erm in terms of er its role , then er it is a different role , I would accept that in that there are other parallel routes er more closely at hand , clearly the A one which is to be improved to motorway standard . |