Example sentences of "[conj] it [adv] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it just pours out of your ears . |
| 2 | I , personally , do not think it a very good idea to have carpet in the dining room where it only picks up smells and gets dirtier more quickly than in most places since people do , without fail , drop things . |
| 3 | But where it really takes off is in the central performances by De Niro and Williams . |
| 4 | But seconds later both the England striker and his team recovered their self respect when he netted a Samways cross — although it finally went down as an own goal by Higgins . |
| 5 | Manpower calculates that the average period for which a person works for it ( presumably the average of all spells of employment ) is four months , although it also points out that " many " temporary " workers have been continuously employed by Manpower for several years and three and five year service awards for temporaries are a frequent occurrence " ( Manpower , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | Again , it 's a questin of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 7 | Again , it 's a question of matching the kit to the age of the child because some of them erm — the one we have at home , for example , plugs into the mains and although it only pushes out six or nine volts at the end the child actually does have to plug it in and , well I do n't think I 'd be happy if my six or seven year old was doing that , although my nine year old could cope with it quite happily . |
| 8 | Where the two met , on tracks like ‘ Kennedy ’ and ‘ Brassneck ’ , it was bliss , but overall , it was a difficult record to feel comfortable with , although it still stood up to repeated plays . |
| 9 | David wanted to write a play — that 's what he fancied doing — although it never came about . |
| 10 | It was a smell so keen that it momentarily brought back the holiday she and Martin had spent in Amalfi , the trudge hand-in-hand up the winding road to the mountain-top , the pile of lemons and oranges by the roadside , putting their noses to those golden , pitted skins , the laughter and the happiness . |
| 11 | The brown eye rolled again , so violently that it nearly popped out of its socket : ‘ Do they look like sheep 's footprints ? ’ |
| 12 | However , the committee , which eventually divided on party lines , defined its terms of reference at the outset so narrowly that it effectively ruled out any possibility of discovering the truth or otherwise of the allegations of malpractice that had been made against the police . |
| 13 | Thirdly there 's the old objection of participatory democracy that it simply takes up too much time and this is not a trivial objection , because the thought is not that it 's simply time-consuming , but because it 's so |
| 14 | Some of ‘ Up In Downsville ’ is so laid-back that it simply wafts around your ears like tobacco smoke and they have an irritating habit of pulling their potential punches for fear of treading on someone 's daisies . |
| 15 | did you ever have a desire of er a wall bracket where you did n't have to chase in the flex that it actually ran up from er a socket in the wall ? |
| 16 | Benedict rose from his own chair so hastily that it almost tipped over . |
| 17 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 18 | Isabel shoved her chair back so quickly that it almost toppled over . |
| 19 | The candle flickered again , so badly that it almost flickered out . |
| 20 | The point , so I thought , was to have one in case of emergency , and hope that it never came out of its pouch . |
| 21 | I feel this often leaves the clubhead behind so that it never catches up . |
| 22 | Even according to that it only brings about a slight improvement and yet , the new road causes b in in the words of the County Planning Officer , erm the Borough Council 's own officers and the County Council 's own environmental consultants , causes severe environmental damage . |
| 23 | This should be set so that it only comes out under considerable pressure . |
| 24 | On every channel earnest-looking men with maps and pointers , looking like war-gamers in some fiendish Pentagon basement , demonstrate — predict , even — the inch-by-inch path that the storm is taking , noting that it usually passes off to the north , but may perhaps curve back upon itself and go in for a second strike . |
| 25 | The problem with source code for example — even standardised and tested source code — is that it always ends up going through a variety of different compilation systems . |
| 26 | The problem with source code for example — even standardised and tested source code — is that it always ends up going through a variety of different compilation systems . |
| 27 | Do you remember Rhubarb on the telly was n't it good that it like came on after Magic Roundabout finished did n't it ? |
| 28 | The article continues : ’ Sports bodies are denied resources by government , which takes more from sport than it ever gives back . |
| 29 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 30 | He had a sense of humour , did Walter , so it never got out of proportion . ’ |