Example sentences of "exactly [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The family may look forward to the first visit home , assuming that everything can go on exactly where it left off . |
| 2 | The Undo command gives you a second chance when you delete a block of text in error by allowing you to replace it in the document exactly where it came from . |
| 3 | She put out the light , leaving it exactly where it had been , for Philip . |
| 4 | She was wasting her time ; without knowing exactly where it had been lying , there was no means of identifying the spot from where it had fallen . |
| 5 | Academics on the other hand will argue that beyond a certain point ( and there is no agreement exactly where it lies ) an increased student/staff ratio is bound to mean a dilution in the quality of the product . |
| 6 | The real Scotland of today knows exactly where it stands : on its own in defence of its national rights and determined that Scottish votes will count in future . |
| 7 | I knew exactly where it stood because one of our pampas bushes was there and , in the middle of it , a coloured ball of Tony 's . |
| 8 | John sees this as a bonus , for if you drop your pencil while drawing in bed , you know exactly where it has gone . |
| 9 | Yet these million or so termites build their equivalent working in a coordinated way in total darkness , each blind , tiny-brained insect knowing exactly where it has to place its pellets of mud to produce nurseries , supporting pillars , living chambers , gardens , flues , defensive walls — and that extraordinary spiral cooling vane . |
| 10 | Yet she had timed her appearance so exactly that it seemed as if she had been forewarned of the train 's arrival . |
| 11 | Yep exactly as it came . |
| 12 | The human mind is more than a computer : Computers have dull and exact memories — what went in can come out again , exactly as it went in . |
| 13 | And she typed the dream exactly as it had come to her . |
| 14 | Mr Kendal inspected the cellar in 1891 and found the place exactly as it had been when Durham used it . |
| 15 | Aunt Lou 's house looked exactly as it had always done . |
| 16 | It was exactly as it had been drawn in the family for generations . |
| 17 | The two and a half second ticking sequence sounded exactly as it had done in the sonar room . |
| 18 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 19 | The heavy furniture of the lobby was still arranged exactly as it had been in 1950 . |
| 20 | When light dawned , both sides looked very foolish , and made a treaty that everything should be put back exactly as it had been . ’ |
| 21 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 22 | The rope hung behind , exactly as it did in the picture . |
| 23 | Tigers do not know that humans beings have no sense of smell , and when a tiger becomes a man-eater it treats a human being exactly as it treats wild animals , that is , it approaches its intended victims up-wind , or lies up in wait for them down-wind . |
| 24 | The place appears exactly as it has done through the ages , the only signs of man 's intrusion being a ruined bothy , an insecure footbridge and the thin track worn by hardy walkers . |
| 25 | His problem seemed to be that he believed a Government could do exactly as it liked without taking public opinion into account . |
| 26 | I had to put the project aside for a while , he wrote , as the rent had to be paid , not to speak of alimony , school fees and the rest , and , coming back to it after a considerable period , much longer , unfortunately , than I had anticipated , and I will not even try to apologize since you gave me a completely free hand — anyway , he wrote , trying to ignore the damp spots left on the page of his pad by his sweaty hands , anyway , coming back to it after all that time I realized that it would be quite impossible in practice to separate the valuable and the worthless , the public and the private , and that , in a sense , one would have to think in terms of either publishing the whole thing exactly as it stood , or not doing it at all . |
| 27 | Mistakes do not disappear of their own accord , and the text on the screen will be saved and printed exactly as it appears . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if a question is asked exactly as it appears here and you give an answer which has clearly been prepared in advance and learned off by heart you will not be very convincing . |
| 29 | I 've told you the truth , exactly as it happened . |
| 30 | Intel 's difficulties getting yields on 66MHz Pentiums leave Unisys , who has had a close collaborative alliance on chip design with Intel for the past two years , unable to say exactly when it go to the 66MHz parts . |