Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another .
2 ‘ Poor Charlie never could understand 'ow it come ter 'appen , ?
3 the nature of the illness or injury , how long it has already continued and your prospects for recovery ;
4 A Both will establish separate homes , but constitutionally it has never mattered whether the Prince and Princess of Wales were happy and together or not .
5 Or perhaps it had never existed .
6 Perhaps it has just got eczema , for crying out loud . ’
7 Perhaps it 's never come up .
8 So it does actually span the end of the boom , the beginnings of the recession .
9 But if , if I stay here it means that we 've , we 've a , a ho a home in the , the base , and he 'll get a transfer back guaranteed transfer back within two or three years , so it means just travelling for for erm you know , that length of time .
10 So it has only got three legs ?
11 And so it has now set its ‘ education and outreach ’ department ‘ to encourage young people from across Britain to use their music and song to tell their stories ’ .
12 The kind of variation revealed by occasional spellings as primary evidence does not always fit comfortably into the standard historical linguistic mould , and so it has often seemed convenient to ignore it or explain it away , sometimes on the grounds that variability of the kind apparently attested is ‘ impossible ’ .
13 In doing so it has often tended to neglect crucial distinctions between the nature of language and the nature of images .
14 So it works sometimes take away but sometimes you get things like ooh let's see er I 'm making a mess of this you can write it out nicely .
15 Erm I mean Martin , Martin 's very good and he 'll , you know , stop me there and , and , and go back over it and but it , it , the the was already there so it 's already got you thinking about other things and , you know , things that were completely irrelevant and it confused me at times .
16 So it 's just got in a bigger mess and a bigger mess to be honest with you .
17 Right , classes is definitely plural , so it 's definitely got to go after the s , and therefore it sounds as if teachers is going to be plural , does n't it .
18 Probably few people would adhere strictly to Comte 's scheme nowadays if it was presented to them in its original form , but nevertheless it does still seem to underpin the structure of first degree courses in the main natural sciences ( physics , chemistry , biochemistry , biology ) and the typical faculty demarcation between the natural and the social sciences .
19 He knew that he 'd been close , but then somehow it had all slipped away from him ; when Alina had n't come out and the three of them had finally gone into the building , it was to find incomprehension from the woman who lived alone and an empty flat where she said she 'd gone for help .
20 It 's always been my intention , but somehow it 's never happened .
21 How easy it had all seemed then — how exciting !
22 Where exactly it began rather depends on whether or not you decide to categorise certain books as police procedurals or as perhaps crime novels .
23 Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement .
24 Gradually it became more institutionalised as something resembling organised diplomatic services emerged .
25 A Muslim officer who recently quit the Yugoslav army claimed yesterday it had massively armed Serbian militiamen in Bosnia and co-ordinated plans to partition the republic along ethnic lines .
26 If it dries up for three or four days it 's st dries up for three or four days and Dennis has to stop the minute he picks it up it 's just blown away .
27 Significantly , the Aviation Museums Association of Australia had applied to the New South Wales Heritage Council in 1990 to have the aircraft protected by State heritage legislation but eight months later it has yet to receive even an acknowledgement from the Council .
28 How clearly it had all come back to her — even the piping treble of her own childish voice .
29 He had ordered the William Ashbless poetry over a month ago , and now it had finally arrived .
30 Now it had all left her .
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