Example sentences of "[adv] it [verb] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 2 | My goodness , how long it takes to write all this , this life of mine . |
| 3 | One glance was all it took to realise this was one hard nut to crack — his features still completely impassive . |
| 4 | If its policy seemed more or less radical at different times it was n't necessarily changing its view of land reform , but it was keeping its final goal of socialism in sight so it had to make short term expediencies . |
| 5 | Erm so it had to have all the lighting , official lighting for the continent and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | So it decides to pay first , asserting that it will challenge the lawfulness of the demand in litigation . |
| 7 | So it helps to put that in the brackets . |
| 8 | So it pays to keep all of them well out of the reach of young , inquisitive hands . |
| 9 | ‘ Can You Shake ’ is pure sixties melody with the inevitable jangling guitars and wah-wah- wahs but somehow it manages to dodge all the worst cliches that usually accompany this sort of workout . |
| 10 | For example , it would appear that substituting in a simple formula expressed in words is too difficult for lower attainers , although superficially it seems to require little more than following simple instructions . |
| 11 | Often as not it has to make several passes through the gravel before all of the suspended matter is finally trapped in the gravel . |
| 12 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
| 13 | The Crown 's credit was good , but still it needed to assign some regular revenue : thus Cade had the farm of Dover from 1154 ( and presumably earlier ) until 1161 . |
| 14 | Vacuum at least once a week and shampoo whenever it starts to look grubby — probably once or twice a year . |
| 15 | Another curious attribute of the powder is that when cooked out it helps to extract other flavours while losing its own . |
| 16 | It had seemed like madness before ; now it began to seem shameful . |
| 17 | 1991 , 27 , 1098 ) , but now it appears to have environmental problems as well . |
| 18 | Now it wants to stimulate more investment by reducing the bureaucracy and allowing foreigners to have a controlling interest in hotel and tourist developments . |
| 19 | Unfortunately the Muddletonians erm seems to contradict the point I 'm wanting to make , because erm frankly it seems to belong more to the world of historical novels . |
| 20 | Did n't it have to survive first though ? |
| 21 | Repeated official and unofficial enquiries have suggested that the foreign exporting sector buys very little that is of Irish manufacture , and even when it does buy locally it tends to buy low value-added goods , like packaging materials and industrial consumables . |
| 22 | It comes with its own good reviews in the form of sleevenotes which make amusingly extravagant claims , including that it is a record about ‘ how you sometimes feel like the sky will peel away like a mask and reveal something more brilliant behind ’ , which may tell some of you not just a little of how this record sounds , but how it got to sound that way too . |
| 23 | Sometimes it helps to produce two or three alternative structures , embodying quite different approaches to the same material . |
| 24 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
| 25 | ‘ Then it began to get easier . |
| 26 | Then it began to throw small stones , covered in snow , at the fifth window . |
| 27 | Then it started to get worse , dangerous : the leaving the front door wide open , setting the electric kettle down on the gas hob kind of dangerous . |
| 28 | Then it started to feel funny , just the two of us there and nobody talking . |
| 29 | It is so tiny that it can live inside an empty clam shell whence it emerges to seize minute soldier crabs . |
| 30 | What disturbs me about the wording of this resolution it 's quite clear that it 's it has not been discussed with the relevant officers here and yet it seeks to instruct those officers to prepare a report . |