Example sentences of "[noun sg] it [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's said the engine is the same as any injected 1.6 but in this car it feels torquier , much smoother , more eager and quieter , though this could be as a result of top-down wind roar . |
| 2 | She was now in such pain , and moment by moment it got worse . |
| 3 | All of a sudden it sounded friendlier , more reasonable . |
| 4 | From this vantage point it becomes clearer , showing its rounded back to the west and a steep series of crags , cliffs and gullies to the north and east . |
| 5 | Only the bobbing ice raft felt safe , and every day it grew smaller as the waves grew warmer under a sun which rose a blazing orange and filled the sky with streaks of scarlet and gold . |
| 6 | It 's understood a new report will say there 's no evidence it works better than traditional methods . |
| 7 | ‘ Caledonian Mining remains interested in Monktonhall , but Macleod is no longer prepared to talk to the board in case it provokes further misleading comments to the press , ’ the source said . |
| 8 | She had no idea what he was up to , but instinct told her that he was trying to help her , and in this case it seemed wiser to follow her instincts . |
| 9 | Like similar assumptions about fresh air and freedom it needs further investigation , otherwise we shall measure its extent rather than its quality , its coverage rather than its benefits . |
| 10 | It might be a bit awkward when you start off but once you 've done it a bit it gets easier . |
| 11 | As soon as she left the main tourist route it became quieter and darker . |
| 12 | As the traffic thickened towards the rush hour it got easier , but more boring , to stay fairly close behind him . |
| 13 | Of course it grows colder as you move away from the equator , and it is rarely above 5°C at latitudes greater than 50 degrees , north or south . |
| 14 | For this reason it seems best to concentrate upon the Mustakimzade tradition in order to be able to set the Katib Celebi tradition against the background of what is felt to be a more probable account of the origins of the Muftilik . |
| 15 | In this way , the Committee was able , quite consistently , to propose what , on the one hand appeared to be a relaxation of the law in the area of homosexuality , whilst on the other hand it recommended stronger sanctions in the area of prostitution . |
| 16 | Towards the end it got better though , and they got the time right , we timed it towards the end and the wording was right , so it got better towards the end . |
| 17 | Well no because we had n't , us , given us any ideas , towards the end it got better , and they were . |
| 18 | Towards the end it got better and they worked , it was a bad start , but it got better towards the end . |
| 19 | Grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory , Haffey let in a shot it seemed easier to save . |
| 20 | In some extraordinary way it seemed hotter now than at midday when the blistering sun was overhead ; such faint breeze as there might be from the water seemed to fall utterly it this turn of the tide . |
| 21 | And even though that colour is n't really in the tile it looks better . |
| 22 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 23 | We have also shown that TCR- α expression is irrelevant to these processes , but together with TCR- β rearrangement and expression it allows further differentiation into mature , CD4 or CD8 SP thymocytes expressing high levels of αβ TCR and CD3 . |
| 24 | But this time it seemed worse . |
| 25 | As a forum it involves larger numbers of working-class men and women than any other form of adult education in Britain , and it appeals to them as representatives of a wider movement of working people , banded together into continuing and accountable organisations . |
| 26 | Quality : If a firm makes a component rather than buys it from an external party it has greater control over the quality of the component . |