Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The zeal does not always survive the pedestrian management structures of local government , and perhaps it takes a more than ordinary enthusiasm to persist after the efforts of economizing councillors under pressure to do something about the rates . |
| 2 | " Well , " Graham said slowly , deciding he had better say something nice , " it 's good , but perhaps it needs a little work . " |
| 3 | On the teletext today it had a few words from Fergie saying that he reckoned that the no. of points they need to win the league is 84 . |
| 4 | Unfortunately it crashed a few months later on a training mission in Scotland , when part of a Polish Squadron . |
| 5 | And then it sold a few , and a few more , and I thought ‘ Well why not give it a try ? ’ … and it blows my mind . ’ |
| 6 | And even then it took a few more strangled moments before she could force her numbed brain to function with anything more coherent than a scream of anguish . |
| 7 | She only took her sunglasses off when she was inside the dark little shop but even then it took a few moments for her eyes to adjust . |
| 8 | He heard himself , it sounded like a door opening somewhere inside him , it was an old door , it had been stuck for years , you had to heave on it , you needed all your strength , and then it gave a few inches , and cried out as it gave . |
| 9 | Then it follows a former railway line to Woodhall Spa before crossing fenland on its way to the cathedral city of Lincoln . |
| 10 | If such a small figure does indeed give the national picture in microcosm , then it knocks a few favourite ‘ facts ’ about condensation on the head . |