Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Erm so it went to seven months and then you could see us switch back on time and we switched back on in about November . |
| 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 | Clearly it fell on deaf ears . |
| 6 | Now it looked like thirty tonnes of metal falling straight towards her . |
| 7 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 8 | Presumably it evolved in these rivers and their tributaries . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm there used to be an agreed area of three miles then it went to twelve miles but that 's now in question because of the different ways in which the sea has been developed . |
| 11 | And I think our wages were about twelve and six a week and then it went to fifteen shillings a week . |
| 12 | And then it went from thirty shillings and thirty two and sixpence . |
| 13 | By then it amounted to 8,000 volumes ; and by 1792 , at the outbreak of war between revolutionary France and most of Europe , this figure had risen to 12,000 . |
| 14 | And yet it felt like four years . |
| 15 | This could be demonstrated explicitly or via an audit report which was exception-based , i.e. it reported on any instances where the law was contravened . |