Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right so it went from Cheltenham to London , a hundred and twenty miles , in two hours , what was its average speed ? |
| 2 | ‘ To lutin ’ means to tie hair in ELF-locks ; sometimes he would tangle a horse 's mane so badly it had to be cut . |
| 3 | This lamb 's leg was tangled with twine and swollen so badly it had to be put down . |
| 4 | Less formally it amounts to providing trained and experienced adults with the opportunity professionally to expand ( G.E . |
| 5 | Quality , premiums , yields and timeliness are what the grain harvest is all about and so far it looks as if the malting trade may turn out not too bad . |
| 6 | There 's no queue of traffic along here so far it seems to be coming through fairly er well . |
| 7 | It was decided also that if any person was to win 6 years in succession , he would be presented with the trophy to keep ; so far it appears to be an impossible goal as in the intervening 266 years , no person has won more than once . |
| 8 | Well it 's only now it feels like this ! |
| 9 | Only now it looks as if it was n't . |
| 10 | Only now it looks like a fraction . |
| 11 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 12 | Not so long ago it seemed as if the world was to divide into three main trading blocks : the EC based around the West German economy ; a Northern American block based around the US-Canadian free trade area , and a Pacific unit incorporating the Asian tigers with Japan and the yen at the centre . |
| 13 | Every so often the sound of a dropped pencil or pen would break the solitude , but apart from that the only sound was that of the wind outside , whipping around the building , hurling rain at the windows so hard it sounded as if thousands of tiny pebbles were being bounced off the glass . |
| 14 | So then it got into |
| 15 | Why they did not use them in a manner that would almost certainly have sealed the fate of the French at Verdun seems to us almost incredible , and so indeed it seemed to contemporary German critics . |
| 16 | WWF found that finding a cuddly plant equivalent of the panda was difficult , so instead it focused on the value of plants to mankind , particularly medicinal plants . |
| 17 | But just now it works for all of us that these Pessarane Behesht have taken it into their heads to seize the woman and child . ’ |
| 18 | Jaq had n't told either of his companions exactly what he intended to do , and just then it occurred to him how Googol might resent the deaths of fellow Navigators caught on this world when the flesh-eater came . |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards it came under the aegis and support of the Standing Conference of National and University Libraries ( SCONUL ) and the scheme assumed the title of the SCONUL Tape-Slide Group . |
| 20 | The Doctor had grinned , rather sheepishly it seemed to Britta . |
| 21 | Semantically , the less of a notional component the verb has , the more naturally it goes with the theme as a foundation-laying element . |
| 22 | The more History attempts to transcend its own rootedness in historicity , and the greater the efforts it makes to attain , beyond the historical relativity of its origin and its choices , the sphere of universality , the more clearly it bears the marks of its historical birth , and the more evidently there appears through it the history of which it is itself a part … inversely , the more it accepts its relativity , and the more deeply it sinks into the movement it shares with what it is recounting , then the more it tends to the slenderness of the narrative , and all the positive content it obtained for itself through the human sciences is dissipated . |
| 23 | The site has no obvious Iron-Age antecedents ; more probably it originated as a civilian vicus outside the fort , which aerial photographs show as a multiple-ditched installation enclosing c. 2 ha ( 5 acres ) on a gravel terrace north-west of the later defended nucleus and the Billing Brook . |
| 24 | Like the unimpeded flow of the " native " culture , the spiritual greatness of the literary work is incontestable : " the greater the work the more clearly it speaks for itself " , " even the teacher of English must bow before the experience of those great minds with which the works offer contact . |
| 25 | Sometimes it was quantitatively inadequate , but more often it suffered from an excess of conflicting signs and signposts . |
| 26 | More often it works as a way of postponing the cost to the successful assisted litigant until damages and costs are received from the opponent . |
| 27 | P. Further afield it has to be Bury . |
| 28 | Once again it points to the power of particular historical languages in constructing individuals and shaping their political demands . |
| 29 | There was little interest and once again it came into the hands of James Joiner . |
| 30 | And after failing to find it once again it came into the porch and complained loudly and so I went outside and with a paint brush I marked the entrance to the hive with three blobs of paint of a different colour and then with a piece of cardboard I guided the tiny winged creature towards the marks on the wall and it went inside . |