Example sentences of "[adv] it [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 2 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 3 | Eventually it was standing so well that the twins were able to play teasing games with it , pushing and pulling and slapping its sides , so sometimes it fell and sometimes it lurched from side to side and recovered . |
| 4 | Sometimes it went to sleep on the rag rug before the electric fire and snored quietly , or its paws would twitch as it chased rabbits in its sleep . |
| 5 | In Orkney , the attack on housing policy was at first personal but then it turned against bureaucracy in general which led officials to being very defensive . |
| 6 | Although not completely immune from failure its advantages were obvious ; despite this , initially it met with opposition from many of the old timers . |
| 7 | Up to that time coal was chiefly used as a domestic fuel but from 1812 onwards it went to sea as bunker fuel . |