Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know er some of them they did a five piece jigsaw easter egg things that when they take them and an envelope to send them off to put it in , so when they take it home and fit it together it says happy easter . |
| 2 | Suddenly it grew small and poky . |
| 3 | His smile was open and friendly , and suddenly it seemed preposterous to be standing here , on a Roman street corner , arguing with a man who had taken her from an existence that she 'd hated to one that was all she 'd ever dreamed of . |
| 4 | The sound of the water faded , there were only the two of them locked in this tiny space , and suddenly it became difficult to breathe . |
| 5 | Suddenly it felt dark and oppressive in the little office , heavy with all the unhappiness there 'd ever been in the Demdyke house . |
| 6 | it was really going faster and faster and faster and suddenly it stopped dead . |
| 7 | Compared with such an inexorable path to disaster , still camouflaged by the ‘ Hitler myth ’ , the self-seeking aggrandisement of Party bosses , however much it offended social and political sensitivities , was only of fringe importance . |
| 8 | The newly styled firm of G. & J. Cary continued at 86 St James 's Street until 1850 , although apparently it ceased cartographic publication c .1846 . |
| 9 | So the , cos apparently it reaches right into the erm like living room but all around the |
| 10 | The conventional style , gears , whether they 've been power or or manual , as develops erm more of the sort of business on those type applications , yeah , then basically it increases overall share and then it puts pressure on the business that we 've got on the other D group ball bearings . |
| 11 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 12 | The truth was that as the days went by and the heavy rain showed no sign of slackening for very long it became clear that something very frightening had begun to happen . |
| 13 | The ‘ now ’ here instead corresponds to the ‘ now ’ on & alpha Centauri in 4.5 years ' time , because that is how long it takes light to get from here to there . |
| 14 | On some days when it looks good and I let it dry naturally it goes curly . |
| 15 | Naturally it has different applications in different contexts . |
| 16 | The suggestion of Trotter ( 1949 ) that the whole of the South Wales coalfield was underlain by a regional thrust plane , probably represented at surface by the Careg Cennen disturbance , was scornfully rejected by O. T. Jones and others in one of the Geological Society 's historic controversies , but perhaps it deserves critical reconsideration in the light of recent ideas about deep crustal detachment zones . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , Benelux did advance further than other proposals for economic union , such as that toyed at in 1945 and again in 1948 by France and Italy , and perhaps it offered valuable lessons that could be learnt by future attempts in the same direction . |
| 18 | Perhaps it seems politic to you to end our affair now that you realise you 're suspected — found out — whereas it did n't seem to matter while the evidence of your passion in bed could lull me into accepting that there was no one else . |
| 19 | Only it went wrong and I got caught by the Russians . |
| 20 | So it plays safe . |
| 21 | So it says united with the whole of reality , that means at the level of intellect , being . |
| 22 | So it produces usable power for an electric generator , without any input . |
| 23 | Theatre , in past centuries , might have counted as a mass medium : it was an effective way of spreading ideas , and so it suffered official censorship ( not abolished until the 1960s ) . |
| 24 | So it became necessary to provide therapy for those unable to achieve the same kind of performance . |
| 25 | This period was fixed at ten years , and so it became possible , after the beginning of 1936 , to extend compulsory registration to any county in England and Wales . |
| 26 | So it felt obliged to withdraw the invitation . |
| 27 | I said we 'd better go home and check and so we drove down to and as I got there , so the bus comes up , so it looked pretty but I thought well I 'd better check so I followed it back up and nobody got off it and |
| 28 | Although Mary very rarely cooks trout , when she does so it tastes delicious . |
| 29 | Brian Cowie said : ‘ It was the Ipswich branch of CAMRA which mounted a publicity campaign to save the brewery and so it seemed appropriate that the launch of Pride should be at the festival . ’ |
| 30 | So it seemed sensible to move into this area , take advantage of that for ourselves , and provide them with a better service . |