Example sentences of "it [adv] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only ever happened at night . |
| 2 | It so nearly ended in tragedy . |
| 3 | But ‘ it just never felt like home , ’ adds Elaine . |
| 4 | It still only failed by inches and you can argue , that , finishing farther in front of Gyr and Blakeney than at Epsom and Ascot , Nijinsky ran to form . |
| 5 | The side door to the house swung in when he touched it probably only locked at night . |
| 6 | No it did though , it really really smelt of cider . |
| 7 | It no longer looked like Justine . |
| 8 | It no longer occurred to Folly to doubt that Luke was telling the truth — and she knew that she was concentrating on his explanation simply as a shield against the other questions that hovered only a breath away . |
| 9 | It very nearly did at Verdun . |
| 10 | The biggest shortcoming of the Dobry Report , however , was that it never really came to grips with the major weakness of the development control system : its general isolation from the remainder of the planning process . |
| 11 | ‘ Yeah , but it never really came into play , although it 's a nice idea and it looks good . |
| 12 | It never really got to grips with the issues of childhood , innocence and learning about sexuality . |
| 13 | But it never quite happened to Blythe , or to any other free-jazzer — indeed , with the exception of some of the hippier bits of northern Europe , out-and-out freedom never found much of an audience . |