Example sentences of "it [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You expect it to go a little bit just a tiny bit off |
| 2 | But at the end I thought it got a little bit too silly . |
| 3 | For no special reason except that it was something new to show him and it avoided the long grind out to the airport the brief shuttle flight and another cab queue . |
| 4 | It passed a few minutes later . |
| 5 | My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of . |
| 6 | It represents a complete turnaround rather than a minor course correction ; a turning away from sin to salvation and service in Christ . |
| 7 | We believe that it represents the best way forward , not just for this country but for Europe . |
| 8 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 . ’ |
| 9 | It re-appeared a few weeks later as Netwise UK Ltd , in what some creditors argued at the time was ‘ an apparent breach of Section 312 of the UK Insolvency Act of 1986 , ’ ( UX No 375 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ The Labour Party will have to very quickly make up its mind : does it want a Labour Party clearly led by Neil Kinnock , as I do , or one run by Ron Todd ? |
| 11 | But when I joined the Velvet Underground , then it became a little bit more subliminal . |
| 12 | Car 2 was presented to the National Tramway Museum at Crich in 1963 , where it became the first car there to move under power in June 1964 . |
| 13 | Notably , it produced the clearest suggestion yet from the Soviet side that it was willing to compromise in the 45-year-old territorial dispute between the two countries . |
| 14 | I nearly slipped on the convex peel as it made a squishing sound underfoot , doing small damage to my shoe . |
| 15 | The evening was an enjoyable affair and it made a pleasant change not to have to leave Sally behind . |
| 16 | Anyhow , we had open views over the Heath and Vale of Health and it made a lovely family home even if it was badly designed with a huge wasteful " well " in the middle of the house which had the advantage of enabling us to come downstairs in a series of flying leaps , holding on to tall mahogany pillars at the corners of the stairway . |
| 17 | I had often marvelled at it , but it made the present disaster all the more unbearable . |
| 18 | It made the annual holiday more easily available to millions . |
| 19 | I think it lies a little bit deeper . ’ |
| 20 | When Taylor acquired his Coniston lease it excluded a small sett previously granted to one Mathew Spedding . |
| 21 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 22 | It bounced a few yards ahead of the Hussars ' advance , then slammed into a wood where it tore and crashed through the thickly leaved branches . |
| 23 | Then it moved a great deal leftwards and left the hon. Gentleman looking quite bourgeois compared with some of the later entrants to the Labour party . |
| 24 | Of the two Opens Sandy never looked like winning until the end ; Seve had it won a long way away . |
| 25 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 26 | Welsh rugby needed last year 's tour , with its half-century hammerings , as much as it needs the All Blacks here now . |
| 27 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 28 | It covers the simple case where A holds a deposit as nominee for B. In this type of case the scheme of the legislation is that one ignores the trust and has regard exclusively to the identity of the beneficiary . |
| 29 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 30 | That looks a nice little house there , across there , it looks a big house actually |