Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we shot a 68 in the second round , easily the best round , but most importantly it put us nine strokes ahead of Nicklaus . |
| 2 | Most remarkably it continued to function under California 's midday sun , when it 's slate grey shell was too hot hold ! |
| 3 | Right so it went from Cheltenham to London , a hundred and twenty miles , in two hours , what was its average speed ? |
| 4 | It was Jekub 's ; at least , it was in a big yellow box bolted to part of Jekub , so presumably it had belonged to Jekub . |
| 5 | So eventually it stepped in and moved to buy Unix System Laboratories Inc . |
| 6 | So eventually it stepped in and bought Unix System Labs . |
| 7 | I , I managed all right it suited me . |
| 8 | ‘ To lutin ’ means to tie hair in ELF-locks ; sometimes he would tangle a horse 's mane so badly it had to be cut . |
| 9 | This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down . |
| 10 | Emily hesitated then moved to the scrubbed table and sat down abruptly , her legs shaking so badly it seemed they would n't support her . |
| 11 | ‘ No , ’ Connelly screamed , his yell so loud it seemed his lungs would burst . |
| 12 | Maria paused , looking at him and loving him so much it hurt . |
| 13 | There had always been a feeling of pre-destination with Richard and now that they had both suffered so much it seemed stronger than ever . |
| 14 | And all the time Nisodemus was reminding people how much better it had been in the Store . |
| 15 | Er we 're limited with people and while Brian was in the verge of moving it which the electrics all had to be took out and rerun , he got called away , down to the pre-packs to a breakdown so obviously it did n't get done , the job stopped cos there 's nobody else . |
| 16 | So suddenly it had come , all they were working for . |
| 17 | ‘ No , especially tonight it did not matter . |
| 18 | She had gathered her robes around her , sunk to the ground and then had lifted her hand to her face ( so painfully it looked as though her wrist was broken ) with exactly the same gesture with which this man now covered his eyes . |
| 19 | And yet a powerful fire must have started so quickly it gave poor Cosmas no time even to get out of bed . ’ |
| 20 | Simon had n't inherited yet ; the house was entailed of course and as there was no direct male heir ( my being what I am ) it looked as if it were going to some cousin overseas , only later it became known that Mary had had a posthumous son : he 's still a minor — here 's another member of my family whom I have n't met , I seem to have an assortment . |
| 21 | A year or so later it bought Ventura Software Inc , developer of the program , and later changed the name of the subsidiary to that of the acquisition . |
| 22 | Much later it struck me as odd that I experienced no superstitious fear or repugnance in the presence of a dead body , although I am so squeamish that more than once I have had to ask a neighbour to deal with a dead rabbit that one of the cats had brought in during the night . |
| 23 | On the uppermost landing , flanked by warders , stood a tall , powerfully-built figure in a dark blue suit , his greying hair slicked back so severely it appeared that he was bald . |
| 24 | Having got so far it seemed appropriate to have a word with Tom yesterday , if not a glass of champagne . |
| 25 | It had always seemed such an impossible dream , but with Louise talking about it so matter-of-factly it seemed almost a fait accompli . |
| 26 | Perhaps originally it had been the cellar of a Merchant 's House , for it had walls varying between three and four feet in thickness , whereas the walls of the house where I spent my boyhood were only one brick or nine inches thick . |
| 27 | Just as the regime had decided , by 1859 , to make land available to serfs ( not merely to emancipate them ) , so now it grasped that strengthening the centre 's authority in the countryside ran counter to the policy of increasing the freedom of its subjects . |
| 28 | Chuckle-gobble — only now it did seem like talking . |
| 29 | Through it she could feel the steady rhythm of his heart-beat , only now it held a threat : the fragility of life . |
| 30 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |