Example sentences of "[coord] it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Took a walk in the fields saw an old wood stile taken away from a favourite spot which it had occupied all my life the posts were overgrown with Ivy & it seemed so akin to nature & the spot where it stood as tho it had taken it on lease for an undisturbed existance it hurt me to see it was gone for my affections claims a friendship with such things but nothing is lasting in this world last year Langley Bush was destroyd an old white thorn that had stood for more than a century full of fame the gipsies shepherds & herdmen all had their tales of its history & it will be long ere its memory is forgotten . |
| 2 | All the groups faced one of two basic choices : either the loan carried much higher APR as the repayment period grew longer ; or it carried much lower APR as the repayment period grew longer . |
| 3 | Compared to the classic novel , not a great deal happens in the stream-of-consciousness novel — or it happens off-stage , as it were , glanced at in memory and allusion rather than presented directly . |
| 4 | If it is a wet day or it has recently been raining , so much the better for showing up leaks and dampness . |
| 5 | I have only ever once paid out good cash for rocks , in an emergency when I lived in Reading ( good for free lime-rich gravel , but no local rocks at all ) and it hurt dreadfully . |
| 6 | Oh , he was clever , and it hurt unbearably to know that now , of all times , she had to lie to him . |
| 7 | She found nothing and it hurt so badly . |
| 8 | It 's easy to push a bike and it belts downhill . |
| 9 | If Mercury was hot in these early times , and it formed homogeneously , then it would have differentiated early in its history . |
| 10 | You know , when you get paid twenty pounds a night for driving the minibus , and you get paid nothing for running the P A , and it takes equally long if not , if not |
| 11 | ‘ I expect it 's because I 'm writing and it takes longer , ’ Maggie confessed with a shrug . |
| 12 | Water is a sculptor of landscape ; it gives , and it takes away . |
| 13 | Duck and Frog search for their friends and it takes quite some time to find them all . |
| 14 | Unfortunately however , these functions are poorly documented and it takes quite some time to discover how to use them . |
| 15 | Alton Towers clearly is an exception but again , you have to pay a lot of money for it and it takes quite some time to get the return er , back and , and I would say that erm , many of Michael 's erm , er , organic erm , er , expenditure will , will erm , provide er , a really good return rather quicker but in the long run we think Alton is good . |
| 16 | Having more than 20 cigarettes a day doubles the risk compared with not smoking at all , and it takes about a year of non-smoking for that risk to return to normal . |
| 17 | and it takes about eighty records at a time because it 's using forty five letters with the |
| 18 | and it takes about five fucking hours , it 's ridiculous . |
| 19 | Er , yes I am a person who uses public transport and I believe in it very much , but I must say that erm its very , very inconvenient , I have to rely on three different forms of public transport to get to my work and it takes twice as long as it would as if I , if I could go by car and so I can see the , the attraction of , of going by car and there are many improvements that could be made where I live for instance in , in Glasgow so that you would only have one change and not constantly shuttling to and fro between stations and buses and so forth . |
| 20 | Very little glass is wholly untouched from the time it is drawn or blown from the melt , and it takes only the lightest contact to create an elaborate crack pattern . |
| 21 | Well , yes , we all know that , but if it gives the autograph seeker pleasure and it takes only a moment of your time , then it seems pointless not to oblige . |
| 22 | Stress is quite a problem among the teaching staff since they are still overstretched , and it takes very little extra pressure to produce a minor crisis . |
| 23 | These three islands share a history that reads like a pirate novel and it takes very little research to find documented facts detailing pirate treasure and shipwrecks galore . |
| 24 | At least three car owners out of every 20 have experienced theft from their vehicles , and it takes as little as four seconds for a car thief to break into a car without a key . |
| 25 | And it feels absolutely terrible , especially in the cold mornings . |
| 26 | Erm , I would be happy , I mean , I purposely , I put some lines in just because I was thinking that way at the time , but I 'd be very happy if other people would scribble it out , change it , throw it back at me , you know , I would like to see I suppose , just to see if we can erm , if that , because , because I have to say that although you know part of reading 's letter , erm , I feel it 's , it , it feels destructive and it feels very critical . |
| 27 | It 's pretty big , even with my jumper underneath , but it 's got this lovely silky lining and it feels really comfy . |
| 28 | And it feels really very smooth afterwards . |
| 29 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 30 | She could put the baby into this miniature prison and it crawled there in the trap . |