Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this form , it then remains , and when the rains return , it instinctively remembers it watery home and there lays its eggs , for the cycle to be repeated . |
| 2 | ‘ It rather casts my poor daffs into the shade . |
| 3 | It thereby cut its total bank debt from $1.5 billion to $259m . |
| 4 | If so , natural law is again exposed as consistent with any possible content of positive law and it thereby loses its critical function . |
| 5 | The music by Dominic Muldowney is no more than pleasant , but it effectively fulfils its main purpose , which is to keep at bay recollections of Lerner and Loewe . |
| 6 | The only thing that could get one down — as it eventually did his American television followers — was his high-pitched , breathless , Scots delivery . |
| 7 | It somewhat restored his sardonic humour . |
| 8 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 9 | so they did n't , it only cost them thirty quid for carpet |
| 10 | It only took him six years to become a partner after spells in London and New York . |
| 11 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 12 | I 've just had this new hoover bought me for Christmas , and he comes home from work and I say it only took me five minutes to do the stairs , and all this sort of thing , because it used to take so long before . |
| 13 | Erm being more serious , erm Marple is n't very far away and it only took me thirty minutes to get from my house in Marple to here , tonight , and although some of the constituency 's further away than this and that is actually one of the main considerations , and we 're local . |
| 14 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 15 | It only brought its colourful range of clothing ( aimed at the younger end of the ladies fashion market ) to Britain in December 1990 . |
| 16 | and it 's , it 's the wrong tape , it only tells you last week 's winners |
| 17 | It so happened her first shop , called The Body Shop , opened next door to an undertaker 's in Brighton . |
| 18 | Instead , it perhaps sees its bulging coffers as sufficient reason to risk the wrath of the law , as it must have done at Fangdale Beck . |
| 19 | The necessary conditions for the formation of sand dunes are a wide foreshore exposed at low tide so that the wind blowing over it can dry the sand and set it in motion ; something to trap the sand and cause it to start accumulating ; and plants to colonise the pile of sand and by binding it together to prevent its complete destruction by the wind or high tides . |
| 20 | It was never put into words , nor did it entirely dampen their blistering exchanges . |
| 21 | There was a low murmur of consternation round the bus and , encouraged by it , he went on , ‘ Yes , it just takes one little ting loik dat and it snarls up the traffic for da whole day ! ’ |
| 22 | And this time it did n't give us two X it just gave us one times this one times that one . |
| 23 | Mr Krenz 's resignation as head of state — he stepped down from the party leadership three days ago — signifies what could be a terminal crisis for the party , as it desperately advances its special congress by a week to find new faces . |
| 24 | When it opened in 1931 , erected on 22,000 concrete piles to lift it clear of the water-sodden ground , it already sported its own blast furnace , foundry , jetty and power station . |
| 25 | I have at this point tried to bring in some preliminary notions of stress and prominence without giving a full explanation ; by this stage in the course it is important to be getting familiar with the difference between stressed and unstressed syllables , and the nature of ‘ schwa ’ , but the subject of stress is such a large one that I have felt it best to leave its main treatment until later . |
| 26 | Although the line of the Roman walls and grid layout determined much of the shape of the medieval city , it soon acquired its own imprint . |
| 27 | It soon recovers its stable position if it is pushed to one side or the other . |
| 28 | It soon established its own organization and meeting houses which were hardly distinguishable from chapels . |
| 29 | As in woman-centred feminism generally , it finally assimilates its humanist ideas of feminine consciousness to a concept of a biologically feminine subject . |
| 30 | Whenever we 're organising fund raising events , it usually takes us several weeks to get everything organised . |