Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly it shortened to half height , less . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So it started in that kind of fashion really . |
| 5 | Normally it buzzed with cheerful conversation . |
| 6 | Thereafter it declined to pre-Falklands levels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A year later it died of old age and she buried it in the garden . |
| 10 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Clearly it fell on deaf ears . |
| 13 | Now it seemed like another life . |
| 14 | Now it looked like thirty tonnes of metal falling straight towards her . |
| 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 | ‘ Last time I was here it rained for forty days . |
| 20 | Presumably it evolved in these rivers and their tributaries . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And I think our wages were about twelve and six a week and then it went to fifteen shillings a week . |
| 24 | And then it went from thirty shillings and thirty two and sixpence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Then it started on Cumbrian limestone , blossomed to Lakeland quarries and so , finally , to Raven Crag . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In the summer before the crash , the dollar seemed ready to topple ( as indeed it did after Black Monday ) ; in the spring of 1991 it is soaring . |
| 29 | And yet it felt like four years . |
| 30 | The climate might seem sub-tropical if one is used to taking naturist breaks in Siberia but otherwise it felt like normal swimming-pool temperature to me . |