Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it shortened to half height , less . |
| 2 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 3 | It 's quite tightly bound round there , so it stays in this area here . |
| 4 | So it started in that kind of fashion really . |
| 5 | Normally it buzzed with cheerful conversation . |
| 6 | Shortly it reappears upon another set of metals , and bears down upon more trucks . |
| 7 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 8 | A year later it died of old age and she buried it in the garden . |
| 9 | And erm so that the campaign was working on two levels one to persuade women that they did n't have to take time off from working in factories , at certain times of the month and another to persuade women to use erm internal sanitary protection and as I said I will explain why later it comes into another section . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I , my interest lies particularly I think in the kind of erm popular fiction written in America between the wars , though it has to some extent carried on since World War Two . |
| 12 | Now it seemed like another life . |
| 13 | I think there 's a pride that , that the majority of firemen are , are fairly clean and smart erm there are the odd ones that have to be told but it 's not the same sort of discipline now as there was , and I 'm not sure whether it 's right or wrong , all I see I , I enjoy the discipline when I had it , I sometimes wish it was brought back but er it 's not the time now it seems for that type of discipline , so I think they manage well but er I would like to see a little more but perhaps I 'm a bit old fashioned . |
| 14 | Further experiments will be carried out to determine the underlying reasons for this kind of confusion and how far it occurs in everyday life situations . |
| 15 | Too often it smelled of boiled cabbage and steamed fish . |
| 16 | A sort of well it looked like black wool but I mean it obviously was a brushed cotton I would say . |
| 17 | Well it took about six month with me arguing and arguing and arguing . |
| 18 | But the work also had to contend with three apses , and here it met with less success : in the apse to Orpheus 's right the panel is a poor fit , and throws out the meeting of the guilloche border of the main design with the north-western abutement . |
| 19 | Thence it moves into existing management training — and every manager gets at least five days a year about managing people , in addition to the five days a year basic training that every IBMer is supposed to have . |
| 20 | Second , where there is a reference to time , for instance the past reference of former in ( 36 ) , it does not apply to the putative referent of the noun phrase , who still lives ; nor does it apply to the intensional entity , which is still available to any speaker of the sentence ; rather it applies in some way to the status of the property inherent in the noun ( king , in this example ) . |
| 21 | Apprenticeship training is essentially about ensuring standards of workmanship and characteristically it appears at first sight to take an unconscionably long time . |
| 22 | Then it happens to another dancer and , as I am watching the same pattern of recovery , the man next to me throws his arms into the air , totters forward and begins to experience apparently involuntary spasms . |
| 23 | Then it turns into self-righteous hypocrisy . ’ |
| 24 | Then it passes to another team of engineers who decide how it will work . |
| 25 | If now , with changes in costs , it is possible that surplus may be either increased or decreased , then it becomes of crucial importance to have some means of measurement . |
| 26 | And then it goes into another pipe . |
| 27 | Then it started on Cumbrian limestone , blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so , finally , to Raven Crag . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | When you go to cast a vote in France , your ballot paper has two names on it , the name of the candidate for , or at least it has for each party or for each candidate two names . |
| 30 | Er I du n no what 's happening yet it says in this book |