Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adv] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | before she could have the tiles put on cos then it had to be skimmed and then the tiles put on . |
| 2 | Up until then it had been virtually impossible . |
| 3 | ‘ But you did n't even consult me , ’ said Ken reproachfully when presently it occurred to him to ask what she 'd called the baby , and Wendy told him . |
| 4 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 5 | Then , as now , we had a car fitted with the optional Laycock overdrive , operating on third and top ; then as now it emphasised the low-speed/high-gear flexibility but did show up a big gap between second and third — a gap of over 30mph in maxima . |
| 6 | She shivered again and then again until somehow it became impossible to stop and her whole body became racked with the uncontrollable involuntary movements . |