Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seeing just how comprehensive a work this is , with factory serial number , date of registration , date of next C of A expiry , owner's/operator 's name and probable base all listed , I can only surmise that the note-scribblers/pocket memo mumblers — many of whom seem not to have the slightest knowledge or interest in the type of aeroplane on which the letters are painted — are performing the latter-day equivalent of the sacred ritual which I and many others who have long since outgrown it once enacted in John W.R. Taylor 's ABC of Civil Aircraft Makings . |
| 2 | All those years ago they had thoughtfully placed it unusually low on the wall to make it easy for the child Maggie had then been to reach . |
| 3 | It was a moment before Carson was able to place the researcher 's voice — after all , he 'd only heard it once before but he said , ‘ Yes , I 'm alone . |
| 4 | I 've only heard it once or twice in the last few |
| 5 | Bill had only parked it here a few minutes ago . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 7 | I 've only seen it once . |
| 8 | He had delightedly hung it there . |
| 9 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 10 | In fact , his parents had both been excruciatingly polite to her , but that had only made it even more obvious that she was n't the kind of wife they wanted for their clever , ambitious son . |
| 11 | If we can persuade birds to come and perch on it in a row fairly close together we have obviously made it much easier to see the wire . |
| 12 | Really I think I 've only done it twice this term . |
| 13 | ‘ Promises ’ song was music first ( that 's hard and I 've only done it once since ) and ‘ Sincerely Yours ’ was Rab Handleigh 's ‘ tribute ’ to Barry Manilow which he performed with perfect schmaltz suavity . |
| 14 | I 've only done it once with crisps I had some were soggy and sour and horrible |
| 15 | Well , he 's only done it once and that was when it was in a coat pocket and he pulled it out and it sort of must |
| 16 | This is the , it 's only the I 've only fed it today er |
| 17 | if I 'd have fed it the first time I 'd have understood it , but I 've only fed it today ! |
| 18 | She cheered up after writing the experiment because she had obviously done it rather well . |
| 19 | So if he 'd only got it recently , it would n't have been found . |
| 20 | You 've obviously got it there . |
| 21 | Brenda 's cheeks still burned with shame when she remembered her mother 's insistence that she should visit Hoggatt 's to see where her daughter was going to work , although Chief Inspector Martin , the Senior Police Liaison Officer , had apparently thought it perfectly reasonable . |
| 22 | Children have long played it everywhere , often in dreadful conditions — on the beaches , in the roads , on any bit of rough ground . |
| 23 | Yeah , well I 've only got the one I 've only got the one erm golly how long have I had that yellow must have had it four years or more I 've only worn it about three times I think it 's erm a telly mac and it 's a yellow one erm and it is a bit longer so all these go underneath it , quite well |
| 24 | I 've only worn it once . |
| 25 | I think so , I think I washed it just before Christmas and I 've only worn it once . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've seen the way you look at him — and frankly we 've all found it rather embarrassing to see the lovesick look on your face whenever he 's anywhere near you . |
| 27 | Christina had only encountered it once before when he was hell-bent on buying Crystal Springs . |
| 28 | He 's only taken it temporarily . |
| 29 | Interestingly , homosexuality has hardly ever been rehabilitated as a positive difference within and by those heterosexual discourses which have hitherto constructed it as negative other . |
| 30 | Because I was like well it was n't quite gelling , but I just done it anyway and it |